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Learn the power of positive Attitude

So try letting yourself go, just for the heck of it!

Take that step back from being 'done to' and take the initiative. At work, at home or wherever, this can be a great time, if you let it. There are loads of ideas why. Here are eleven of my favourites...
Personal Growth
Change gives us great moments for self-development and personal growth. It is in times where there is a lot going on, where we have to get out of our box to think, even when change is imposed, that we move forward.

Involving Others
During change periods we can create relationships that are new - and we, as managers, have a great chance to bring others into our confidence and into our network.

Adventure
There is something about change, large or small which creates 'something different' from our routine day. This is pretty cool really. We are being provided with stimulating mental exercise to make the best of things happening differently. It might not look that way, but change brings adventure!

Building it in
Learning about big changes, means that we can closely observe why those changes are necessary. We have to make radical changes because we have strayed well off course. So as we learn, we can make provision to have some minor course corrections rather than completely the wrong destination.

Challenge
In his great book, 'The Inner Game of Work', Timothy Gallwey talks about the fine balance between security and challenge being what gets people motivated. By creating new things to learn, to do, we stretch our people - and ourselves.

Opportunity Change brings new opportunity. For learning; for understanding ourselves better; for new perspectives; for different roles. These can be grasped personally or they can be dwelt on miserably. The better choice is to go for it!

Team Bonding
Change exercises, big and small can be great to develop a team. Where there is the opportunity to work together, manager with their closest people there are often places, moments where the team spirit; the trust and the shared commitment - the 'Dunkirk spirit' even, enables future potential of a team to be loosened.

Honesty
Where radical change proves necessary it enlightens those involved that where they are is not where they need to be. Carrying out a review of why serious change is necessary and seeking the real truth is very revealing. The icing on the cake for those involved in organisational change processes is to create a feedback loop that renders future major change unnecessary.

Choice
Change is not truly necessary. Change is about choice. You have the choice whether to accept it positively or not. It is your choice and everyone has that - believe it or not. No-one is holding you down to prevent you getting away. Take personal responsibility for the choices you make.

Focus
Change gives the opportunity for and usually gets really down to the gist of the issues that have precipitated the need. This is good. Your organisation is realising that things need to be different, for all sorts of reasons, but usually for the health of the organisation and that means you, usually. For some it may mean loss of role, status and even job - now what positive opportunity does that bring!

Passion
And finally, we have the opportunity to review our own roles, not just in the workplace, but in life too. Are you passionate about your work - or are you just muddling through? Are new opportunities presented to you personally through change - within or without the place where you work today? What is your personal passion and how do you work towards making that how you spend every day of your life?
Hey change can be fun, if you let it be. You life can be a straight line, and if you saw that one ER, what would it mean...

Learn the power of positive Attitude

So try letting yourself go, just for the heck of it!

Take that step back from being 'done to' and take the initiative. At work, at home or wherever, this can be a great time, if you let it. There are loads of ideas why. Here are eleven of my favourites...
Personal Growth
Change gives us great moments for self-development and personal growth. It is in times where there is a lot going on, where we have to get out of our box to think, even when change is imposed, that we move forward.

Involving Others
During change periods we can create relationships that are new - and we, as managers, have a great chance to bring others into our confidence and into our network.

Adventure
There is something about change, large or small which creates 'something different' from our routine day. This is pretty cool really. We are being provided with stimulating mental exercise to make the best of things happening differently. It might not look that way, but change brings adventure!

Building it in
Learning about big changes, means that we can closely observe why those changes are necessary. We have to make radical changes because we have strayed well off course. So as we learn, we can make provision to have some minor course corrections rather than completely the wrong destination.

Challenge
In his great book, 'The Inner Game of Work', Timothy Gallwey talks about the fine balance between security and challenge being what gets people motivated. By creating new things to learn, to do, we stretch our people - and ourselves.

Opportunity Change brings new opportunity. For learning; for understanding ourselves better; for new perspectives; for different roles. These can be grasped personally or they can be dwelt on miserably. The better choice is to go for it!

Team Bonding
Change exercises, big and small can be great to develop a team. Where there is the opportunity to work together, manager with their closest people there are often places, moments where the team spirit; the trust and the shared commitment - the 'Dunkirk spirit' even, enables future potential of a team to be loosened.

Honesty
Where radical change proves necessary it enlightens those involved that where they are is not where they need to be. Carrying out a review of why serious change is necessary and seeking the real truth is very revealing. The icing on the cake for those involved in organisational change processes is to create a feedback loop that renders future major change unnecessary.

Choice
Change is not truly necessary. Change is about choice. You have the choice whether to accept it positively or not. It is your choice and everyone has that - believe it or not. No-one is holding you down to prevent you getting away. Take personal responsibility for the choices you make.

Focus
Change gives the opportunity for and usually gets really down to the gist of the issues that have precipitated the need. This is good. Your organisation is realising that things need to be different, for all sorts of reasons, but usually for the health of the organisation and that means you, usually. For some it may mean loss of role, status and even job - now what positive opportunity does that bring!

Passion
And finally, we have the opportunity to review our own roles, not just in the workplace, but in life too. Are you passionate about your work - or are you just muddling through? Are new opportunities presented to you personally through change - within or without the place where you work today? What is your personal passion and how do you work towards making that how you spend every day of your life?
Hey change can be fun, if you let it be. You life can be a straight line, and if you saw that one ER, what would it mean...

SOROJ KHAN DANCE CLASSES

Dance Class Western , Filmy, Freestyle
Classes are held on Dance for all age groups "SHOWSTOPPER"Academy of dance in association with Saroj Khan. Coaches students in Western Dancing and Body fitness, Provides opportunities to perform on Television shows like " Boogie Woogie" and Movies. Students of our class have performed and won in Boogie-Woogie, performed in Film award shows, Albums ...
Contact Person: Charanjit
Timings:
Phone: 9820197871, 25941021
Address: Gurav hall, 1st Floor, Sector 9A, Next to Vashi Bus Depot, Navi-Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400703
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Coaching in Western Dance & Body Fitness.
"SHOWSTOPPER"Academy of dance in association with Saroj Khan. Coaches students in Western Dancing and Body fitness, Provides opportunities to perform on Television shows like " Boogie Woogie" and Movies. Special batches for elders at the Powai Branch.
Contact Person: Charanjeet Singh Kalsi
Timings:
Phone: 9820197871, 25941021
Address: Gopal-Sharma School, Powai-Vihar complex, Powai. / Gurav Hall, Sector 9A, Near Vashi Depot, Vashi.
MAHARASHTRA - 400 076
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Keyboard / PianoClasses on Piano / Keyboard for western pop / classical songs or Indian Songs held for all age groups.
Contact Person: Roma Shah
Timings:
Phone: 98202 77480 / 23681510
Address: 49/9 th Flr, 78 Nepean Sea Rd, Bombay
Maharashtra - 400006
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Indian Filmy and Western Dances"Feel" Dance Academy,In Association with Saroj Khan, Learn Hindi Filmy, Western, Freestyle Dancin' with Dance Aerobics. WANT Michael's Magic? Madonna's Charishma? Nsync's Talent? Janet's Perfection? Usher's Smoothness? Simply watching them gyrate on MTV while you sprawl on the couch isn't doing much in the way of toning your arms, belly tush, so get up and learn their moves. Classes on Mon, Wed, Fri for Kids And Adults ( For All Age Groups ). Classes supervised by saroj khan.
Contact Person: Charanjeet
Timings:
Phone: 9820197871
Address: Sahiba Hall, Back Hall, Adarsh Nagar, in lane A

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The New Big B

"That’s the teen chant gathering around choreographer and singer Ganesh Hegde. Sonia Faleiro gets past the glamour — the gold flecked hair, the apple-red Mitsubishi — to unveil an impoverished past.

"In a basement lined with mirrors thudding to the rhythm of Hindi pop music, 11 young men and women are crouching on their fours, torsos thrusting, backs arching, arms moving like ribbons sailing in the air. Calvin Klein peeks out of Fruit-tella pink Polo sweats; Nike Air from billowing pants of orange. As they dance to a medley of chartoppers from Rang de Basanti to Tera Naam, and for the entire duration of their practise session from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m., the dancers’ eyes never leave the mirrors. Their names may be unfamiliar to you, but the passion in their faces as they sweat, jump, and crawl in this underground discotheque, symbolizes all that is magical and intoxicating about the movies. Watch this scene, for it is during one like this that the troupe’s choreographer, 32-year-old Ganesh Hegde—the man behind songs like Kambakht Ishq, 2001; Khallas, 2002; and Babuji, 2003—knew he was going places.

It was six months ago, however, when a rash of 18 billboards appeared in the most prominent neighbourhoods in Mumbai, that the public began acknowledging this too. On each billboard, a chiseled face peeked out of a white hood. Under it the alphabet G shone in faux diamonds. Was G a singer, a dancer, or a movie star, wondered pedestrians, drivers, and schoolchildren staring at the glamorous image? As it turns out, G is two of the above, one day perhaps to be the third as well. Hegde’s debut Hindi pop album, G, has made him that rare choreographer, like Farah Khan (director) and Prabhudeva (actor), who has expanded his market value substantially in an area other than dance. In an industry where success appears to come only to a Kapoor, a Khan, or a Deol, this crossover, and its impact, is remarkable.

Hegde’s 10-year-old career began in 1994 when event management company Wizcraft commissioned him to choreograph the Filmfare awards, which he did for 10 straight years. It was during one such show that director Sanjay Leela Bhansali offered him his first film break choreographing Khamoshi. Bhansali wasn’t the only one with an eye for potential. Director Shekhar Kapoor was searching for a lead actor opposite his new find Preity Zinta, in Tara-Rum-Pum. Hegde turned down the role, and since the film was never made, reiterated his sound professional judgement. Since then, Hegde has choreographed dance tours, co-starring himself, for Shah Rukh Khan, among others, in the Americas and Europe. In New York girls scream with joy when he’s on stage. Considering the unabashedly sly, sexy moves that have become his trademark, and are seen in the music video for his song Main Deewana, this is to be expected. What isn’t, perhaps, is the distance Hegde has travelled. The realization to a bystander, that the long legged man with the gold flecked hair, now sitting in the backseat of the apple red Mitsubishi Lancer was once a boy who lived on Mira Road, for who butter was “chandi” (silver), and a banana a week a “delicacy.”

Hegde is the second of three siblings born to Vidya, a Parsi and Harishchandra Hegde, a Mangalorean, in suburban Malad. His maternal grandfather passed on when his father was a boy, and as a result the latter’s education didn’t progress far. As a teenager, he worked as a hotel boy, and later assisted his father-law in his ayurvedic medicine business. His best salesmen were his children, and Hegde recalls long, muggy afternoons of traversing neighbourhoods with body balms, ringing doorbells, and suffering rebuffs. “We knew, boss, life isn’t going to be easy,” says Hegde. “That we had to be the running force.” While his mother worked as an accountant, earning Rs 750 a month, his sister Renuka gave tuitions for which she was paid in clothes or schoolbooks. At 12, Hegde worked briefly at a medical store. Despite the raw edges of life, there were some comforting absolutes in the Hegde family. And these proved to be their saviour. Higher education was insisted upon by his parents. (As a result, Renuka is now a software engineer settled in Chicago, and Kishore, the eldest brother, is a chartered accountant.) Hegde’s love of music and dance was also respected and encouraged by them. “No matter what,” he says. “We were very happy. It’s only now when we look back that we wonder how we could have gone through those days. I valued that training, yes, but now I want to protect my family from those things.”

Hegde would organise groups of his friends to participate in his school, Ummedhbhai Patel’s Annual Day dance competition, and in local pandals during festivals like Navratri. His talent as a singer took longer to become public, however. “I used to stammer a lot,” he says. “Insecurities the. Pant pathi thi peeche se, kaun dekhega aur hasenga. Once when I was on stage and heard my voice without the music, I started crying. … But I learnt quickly because of the deficiencies we suffered,” he says. (My pants were torn; I though I’d be laughed at). At home, his mother’s radio played on, filling the empty spaces within their thin walls, with the music of films by Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, and RD Burman. “That was my first school of music,” he smiles. “Despite our problems, my mom and dad still managed to show us a movie a month. And that one movie did a lot for me. Amitabh Bachchan was the main star, and I would watch all his movies. I’d narrate scenes, emulate him. After watching Sholay, I would ask in every drawing we visited, ‘Kitne Aadmi The?’ And when he was hurt I told my father that I wanted to donate blood. In these ways Bollywood came into my life.”

Unable to pay the maintenance fee for their own apartment in Malad, the family had to move to a rental on Mira Road, a dusty suburb of salt pan land. At 17, Hegde started a degree in commerce at Dalmiya College, Malad, where he was also the leader of a gang of friends who called themselves “Twisted Brother”. “It was all about masti and pranks,” laughs Sanjeev Sharma, member, and now Hegde’s manager. Metamorphosis into “Hammer’s Group” (a reference to their dance influence; Michael Jackson was also a favourite), underlined the trendy, youthful essence of the boys’ subsequent careers. For many years this meant choreographing Hawaiian and Arabic theme parties, and once, a launch for Jordache jeans, for which payment is pending.

A step ahead was being a back up dancer, even though dancers then were treated like lackeys, and paid little, rarely. “Even our allowances when we were abroad were kept by the boss,” says Hegde. “Most of the time we starved. But I accepted it because I knew it was a stepping stone.” And there were perks. When the boss was away, Hegde would choreograph for the troupe; and what he now does four times a year, he did for the first time as an impoverished dancer whose heart beat to the rhythm of a Bollywood song: “In those days America was like the moon for me. I’d watch planes, and think ‘when will I sit in one?’ When I got on my first flight; I kept touching the seats in awe. So even though the money wasn’t there, these things kept me going.” After he was underpaid, yet again, Hegde left with his friends to form his own troupe. “Initially I paid them Rs 400, and myself Rs 1, 000,” he says. “Now I pay my dancers Rs 25,000 a show, depending on the size of the show. I know what it’s like to put your life into something, and get nothing in return. How much pain and stress it causes the person, and his family.”

These and other facts about Hegde, despite a decade in show business, haven’t made it to print before. He says, and a Google search reiterates, “Before this interview, whenever asked me to talk about my life, I would start with incidents from age 15.” Hegde isn’t embarrassed by his past of hard knocks; he dislikes pity. “My friends were rich; they had cars, perfumes, you know all those things? At the time Chinese food was a rage; mind blowing. They’d try to drag me along, but I never went. Eventually word might get out that I couldn’t pay and I’d be made to look down.”

As much as Hegde’s success as a choreographer and singer, and a hint of careers in acting—he has received offers for Hindi and Kannada films—and directing to follow, it is his unabashed sense of self worth, and his ambition, which appears to disconcert his colleagues. “He’s always wanted to be big; and everything he did had to be larger than life,” says Sharma. Film journalists describe him as arrogant, and he recently said of turning down an offer to choreograph Salman Khan’s World tour, “I need to concentrate on my career rather than please anyone. Why will I leave this for a four-month vanvas for nothing at all?” A good decision, again, considering that a week after, Khan was sentenced to five years imprisonment for poaching.

What must most disconcert naysayers, however, is the fact that Hegde puts his money where his mouth is. “He absorbs Bollywood and translates it into something that is uniquely Ganesh,” says Sanjoy Roy, Wizcraft. In a time of bust thrusts and crude plagiarism, his choreography is original and hip attracting fans in the age group which matters, eight-18. Teens chant, ‘G, the new Big B’. He’s working on a second album, another music video for his first, and in April will head to Malaysia to choreograph the title sequence of Farhan Akhtar’s Don, starring Shah Rukh Khan—a buddy, who helped him get his first album deal with T-Series.

The boy from the distant ‘burbs, now a man with a penchant for velvet hats, electronic gadgets, a game or cards and of cricket, says firmly, “I just want people to know that I’m different. And that I’ll always deliver.”

So far so good."

Sanjeev mehta's elegant dance academy. Posted on : 05-Jul-2007
Category: Music & Entertainment Sub Category: Others: Music and Entertainment Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Contact Person: sanjeev mehta Contact Number: 9224321778
"hey i m Sanjeev Mehta , i am a choreographer for bollywood just started my career with few music videos and ads.


Learn guitar / keyboards Posted on : 26-May-2007
Category: Music & Entertainment Sub Category: Music Classes Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Contact Person: Manish Sharma Contact Number: 9920317821
Private home tutions in Mumbai/Navi Mumbai, Trinity College of music London Syllabus / Pop music / Indian classical

Salsa classes in mumbai-shalet dance class Posted on : 28-Jun-2007
Category: Music & Entertainment Sub Category: Dance Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Contact Person: shalet Contact Number: 9820361165
Dance and Aerobic Classes for kids and adults at hiranandani, Powai and Chakala, Andheri East. Learn Salsa, Jive, Waltz, Hip-hop and Bollywood dance

Dance choreographer & event organiser Posted on : 29-Jun-2007
Category: Music & Entertainment Sub Category: Entertainers Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Contact Person: yogesh patkar Contact Number: 09323578377
i yogesh patkar is the dance choreographer of nach baliye 2 of manav & shweta. choreographed Gladrags mrs.India for 3 years. I am working in this profession since last 12 year

Category: Music & Entertainment Sub Category: Dance Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Contact Person: SOHIL VIRANI Contact Number: 9860258570
Rythm- come to the world of fitness and dance. At Rythm you cum in as learners and cum out as proffesionals. We teach western,salsa,hip-hop,rock-n-roll,bollywood fusion

Dance and Music Classes

Keyboard Classes are held for 6 years and above. Learn keyboard from start to mastery at your convenience.
Contact Person: Harmony
Timings:
Phone: 09823831550, (020) 25292501
Address: E-8 /12, Popular Prestige Warje, Pune.
Maharashtra - 411052.

Bharatnatyam Classes are held for children between 5-15. Both general and special classes are available.
Contact Person: Pooja Chatterjee
Timings: Classes held in the evenings according to the convenience of the students.
Phone: 09830534087, 55299595
Address: B-281, Lake Gardens, Kolkata
West Bengal - 700045

Carnatic Classical (Vocal) Music Classes are held for kids and adults of all age groups. Carnatic Vocal Classical music is taught for all levels - basic to higher and to all age groups.
Contact Person: Mrs Sumathi Balachandran
Timings: 4 pm to 8 pm all days except Sundays.
Phone: 022 - 30999782
Address: 1403, B- Wing, Hiranandani Apts Sector 7 , Kharghar, Navi Mumbai
Maharashtra - 410210

Learn to Play Musical Instruments Classes are held for kids and adults. Learn to play western / classical musical instruments. Classes conducted in Chennai (Saidapet and Kolathur) City music.
Contact Person: Jayanthi Ashok
Timings:
Phone: 044-26510800
Address: 3 Thulasinga Street, Saidapet, Chennai, 7 Kumaran Nagar, Kolathur, Chennai,
Tamilnadu - 600099

Hindustani Classical Music, Dance & Art Classes are held for children & adult. Chakrapani's World School of Music Description -Hindustani Classical Music / Light, Instrumental -Guitar, Keyboard, Violin, Tabla, Pakhawaj, Sitar, Sarod, Dance-Kathak, Odissi, Modern & Creative :Examination Centre up to postgraduate levelfor music dance & art. Classes are held for all age group.
Contact Person: Paramjeet Kaur
Timings:
Phone: 55666172
Address: B-1, Greater Kailash-1, JF-21, 3rd floor Khirki Extension, New Delhi,
Delhi - 110017

Guitar Classes are held for children of 8 years and above. This class is for anyone who wants to take up guitaring as a hobby or profession. Classes held on Wenesdays and Sundays and also at St. Andrews College Bandra.
Contact Person: Hitesh Rupani
Timings:
Phone: 9819755116, 25229179
Address: 68, Ground Floor, Lakshmi Bhavan Sindhi Society, Chembur Mumbai
Maharashtra - 400071

Keyboards, Casio and Sitar Classes are held for Everyone above 6 years. I am music director for films albums , tv serials I teach keyboards proffessionally . I also teach sitar for beginners I provide home tutions anywhere in pune feel free to contact me.
Contact Person: Rahul Pathak
Timings:
Phone: 9822469154
Address: Karvenagar, Pune
Maharashtra - 411052

Indian Classical Music(instrumental) Classes are held for all. Art And Cultural Trust Of India Indian Classical Music On Instruments like Indian ClassicalGuitar, Key Board, Sitar, Violin, etc.
Contact Person: Chakrapani
Timings: 4pm to 6.pm (twice a Week)
Phone: 011-55666172
Address: JF-21 3rd Floor, Khirki Extension Malviya Nagar, New Delhi
New Delhi - 110017

Instrumental Music & Vocal (Flute\Songs) Classes are held for all age groups (above 4 years). Casio, Flutes, Harmonium, Vocal songs[Semi-classical, Sugam sangeet, Gazals, Bollywood Songs, Folk Traditional Songs etc.
Contact Person: Mr.B.Bhatt
Timings:
Phone: 9820784683 / 22422904
Address: 104, Natwar House, 1st Floor, V.P.Road, Mumbai
Maharashtra - 400004

Vocal, Western dance, Guitar, Tabla, Har Classes are held for for all age groups. Managed by Mrs. Usha Kiran (National Awardee) dedicated to music only. We teach Vocal (Hindustani Clasical), Guitar, Wetern Dance, Tabla, Harmonium etc. Affiliated from Gandharva University.
Contact Person: Mrs. Usha Kiran Sharma
Timings:
Phone: 0129 5004881
Address: 3A- I Block, Sector 10, DLF, Faridabad,
Haryana - 121001

Music class - Keyboard & Guitar Classes are held for for all age groups. Keyboard and Guitar classes undertaken at your spot in chennai. Are you looking for a place for your kids and yourself to learn keyboard and guitar? We teach carnatic & western Classes for all ages. We undertake private home tuitions in Guitar, Piano, Keyboards, Mouthorgan, Violin, Mandolin & Voice training. Flexible timings
Contact Person: Livingstone
Timings:
Phone: 044-26552497
Address: No:28, Plot:No:199, 6th Street, J.B. Estate, Avadi, Chennai
Tamilnadu - 600054

Dance & Stage Shows Classes are held for all age groups. Studio Rythum Dance Academy Timings: To your convinence Stage Shows.
Contact Person: Manoj / Dinesh
Timings:
Phone: 9821457528
Address: Spactic Socity Behind St.Gegorious High School, Sion Trombay Road, Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400071

Classical Carnatic - Vocal Classes are held for children above 6 -7 years and adults too. Iswaraalaya. A music school for excellence in classical Carnatic Music. Classes conducted by qualified teacher who is recipient of Sangeetha Rathna from Music Acadamy Chennai, And also an award from UNESCO for profficiency in composing and tuning songs. Classes run punctually and in organised manner, this music school is renowned for producing upcoming singers.
Contact Person: Usha Srinivasan
Timings:
Phone: 57734186, 98807 66349
Address: G103, Deja View Homes, C.V.Raman Nagar. Ban 'Aiswarya' Behind Aiyappa Temple, New Thip, Bangalore
Karnataka - 560093

Guitar and Keyboards Classes are held for small kids to the working people. We have professional tutors who will come home and will take classes at a nominal rate..timings as per ur schedule..in mumbai and thane.
Contact Person: Bipin
Timings:
Phone: 9820 222450
Address: Mumbai
Maharashtra - 400081

Dance Workshop & Choreography Classes are held from kids from 6 yrs. onwards. Kathak, Folk, Creative & Rabindra Nritya - only for sunday morning. Summer Workshop & Choreography for any orgn. & institutions etc.
Contact Person: Phalguni Banerjee
Timings:
Phone: 9818205405 & 9810226331
Address: 1765, Lodhi Road Complex, New Delhi - 3 & 60, Nalta Kalibari Road, Kolkata-28 New Delhi - 110003

Spanish Guitar and keyboard Classes are held from kids to adults. Professional guitarist at Doordarshan, working as a freelancer. Transcriber and translator of music language. Writer of guitar books. Lead guitarist and Vocalist. working on Indian classical [ Ragas -improvisation] on spanish Guitar, coming up with an album. Worked as Guitar Instructor at Shemrock, Umak, Creative Arts, ITI, Swaranjali, Sangeet Niketan, and other schools and institutions. Worked as a Music Composer and assistant music director in the production of various private music albums.
Contact Person: Kapil
Timings:
Phone: 9899140511
Address: C-43, Chander Nagar(west), Delhi.
New Delhi - 110051

Classical Dances, Vocal, Instruments Classes are held for age 3 yrs onwards.
Priya Dance & Music Academy Classical Dances: Bharatnatyam, Kathak, Manipuri Instruments: Sitar, Guitar, Voilin, Flute, Tabla, Keyboards Vocal: Classical, Light
Contact Person: Priya
Timings:
Phone: +91 98108 47499
Address: 177, Ground Floor, Ashoka main,
Faridabad - 121003

Music, Art & Craft, Guitar, Synthesizer, Dr Classes are held for kids (5 years and above). Vocal(Hindustani classical), Tabla, Guitar, Synthesizer, Dramatics, Art & Craft 4PM-6PM on week days and Sunday morning. Classes are specially designed for performance and groom artistic skills. Examination facilities are available.Monthly Rs.500/- and Rs.100/- admission fee.
Contact Person: Debu Bhattacharjee
Timings:
Phone: 9313328129, 26277957
Address: E-863, II floor, Chittaranjan,
New Delhi - 110019

Carnatic Music Classes are held for all ages. We teach carnatic, devotional vocal for all ages. Classes are conducted 7 days a week.
Contact Person: Supraja
Timings:
Phone: 301-208-1256
Address: # 5,Walkers Choice road, Montgomery village, Gaithersburg
Maryland - 20886

Music Class (Vocal, Harmonium, Violin) Classes are held for Children and Ladies. Music Classes for Children & Ladies (Indian Classical Music). Timing - Afternoon & Evening.
Contact Person: Ketaki Ponkshe
Timings:
Phone: 022 24454462
Address: 4, Angelina, 735, B.W.Pathare Marg, Dadar(W), Mumbai,
Maharashtra - 400028

Western, Ball Dances Classes are held for 15 years & above, Western, Ball (Couple) Dances. Mornning and Evening classes.
Contact Person: Ms. Preeti
Timings:
Phone: 91-020-25445362
Address: Ratan, Gururaj Soc, Paud Rd, Kothrud, Pune,
Maharashtra - 411038

Western Dance, Aerobics, Creative Dance Classes are held for 15 to 35 age group, For Female only. Mon, Wed, Friday. Mornning and Evening classes.
Contact Person: Trishna Sarkar
Timings:
Phone: 9350890139
Address: Mayur Vihar Phase 3, New Delhi,
New Delhi - 110011

Music Teacher Classes are held for all kids and adults. Guitar, Keyboard, Harmonium, Vocal, afternoon and evening.
Contact Person: Kapil
Timings:
Phone: 9899140511
Address: C-43, Chander Nagar(W), Delhi - 110051
Delhi - 110051

Classes in Dance, Music , Art and Crafts Classes are held for all age groups. ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A PLACE FOR YOUR KIDS AND YOURSELF TO LEARN ALL FORMS OF ART - Dance, Music, Art and Craft in one Campus, then here it is "L'ecole d' art", just for you. This School Is basically aimed at bringing about all forms of art togeather in one place. Opening: November-December 04' We will work from 07:00 a.m to 6:30 p.m
Contact Person: Anusha
Timings: 07:00 a.m to 6:30 p.m
Phone: 31858525
Address: 1433, 3rd Cross E- block, AECS Layout, Bangalore
Karnataka - 560038

All Hindustani Classical Art forms-Vocal Classes are held for all age groups. Classes conducted all 7 days a week. Classes conducted twice a week . Open for all age groups.
Contact Person: Pooja Chopra
Timings: 9.00 am to 7.30 pm
Phone: 26856347
Address: Bhatkande Sangeet Vidyalaya, B-6 Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi.
New Delhi - 110016

The Academy of Music Classes are held for the age of 4yrs. and above. The only professional school of western music in Mumbai, giving private home tuitions in Guitar, Piano, Keyboards & Voice and preparing you for The Trinity College of Music (London) International Music Exams.
Timings:
Contact Person: Mr. Rowland D'Costa (Principal)
Timings:
Phone: 26673506
Address: Vakola, Santa Cruz,
Maharashtra - 400055

Latin American, Ballroom, Indian Guitar classes for individuals/groups. Only in Suburbs (Western Line) Timings: From Monday - Friday after 7.00 p.m at individals residence
On Saturday from 3.00 - 6.00 p.m at individuals residence
On Sunday at Kandivli (W)
Contact Person: Bryan
Timings:
Phone: 28083860
Address: B-202, Shree Yamuna, Poinsur Gymkhana, Poinsur, Kandivli (W),
Maharashtra - 400067

Latin American, Ballroom, Indian Ballroom, Latin American, Kathak, Bharat Natyam, Folk, Bollywood Dhamaka, Creative Dance for children, Kickboxing, Reebok Aerobics, Hip Hop, Breakdance.
Contact Person: Aanchal Gupta
Timings:
Phone: 9820380009
Address: 39, T.V. Chidambaran Marg, Sion (E), Mumbai
Maharashtra - 400022

Keyboard Classes
Classes held for All, even at student's residences. Classes for keyboard (Yamaha, Casio). Learn from basic finger exercise to advance course and also learn to play hindi film songs.
Contact Person: Raju
Timings:
Phone: 9821293572
Address: 131/3, N.C.H Colony, Kanjurmarg(W) , Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400078

Keyboard / Piano
Classes held for Children. Class can be held at home of student or at my residence.
Contact Person: Benny
Timings:
Phone: 982006474
Address: 201, Gossake Colony, 4 Bunglows, Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400056

Spanish Guiter
Classes held for all ages. Guiter lessons from the basic. Extra timings for the beginners, classes on weekends.
Contact Person: Arin Dubey
Timings:
Phone: 9890571092
Address: Ganga Village, Hadapsar, City Point, Dholley Patil Road, Pune
Maharashtra

Latin and Standard Ballroom, Salsa
Classes held for everyone above 9 yrs of age. A Highly Recommened institute for learning Salsa Dancing, Latin Ballroom, Tango, Jive, Cha-Cha, Lambada, Waltz, Rumba.. Flexible Batch timings, Music Provided, 3 instructors per batch, unlimited practice time, One of the most professional institutes with tie-ups with big corporates, gymnasiums, clubs, schools and colleges. Run by Mr Anand Majumdar, a professional in performing arts for the past 10 years.
Contact Person: Anand Majumdar
Timings:
Phone: 9820399296
Address: Andheri, Bandra, South Bombay, Home Lessons, Workshops Mumbai
Maharashtra- 400049

Carnatic Music
Classes are held for kids and ladies. Carnatic music, Abirami Andadi, Tirupavai, Bhajans, classes held for kids and ladies from 3 to 6 on weekdays and also mornings on weekends
Contact Person: Mrs Rao
Timings:
Phone: 24800353
Address: New No 35/6 Taylors Estate, 2nd Street, Kodambakkam, Chennai
Tamil Nadu - 600 024

Bharatanatyam Classical Dance
Classes are held for children age group-6 yrs. onwards. PRANAV PERFORMING ARTS We are teaching classical dance bharatanatyam Features: * Providing Sufficient theory material. * Providing Practice dance audio cassette or c.d. for dance practice at home. * Conduts dance video shows of famous dancers. * Organises various cultural dance programes. * Conduts State and National level dance exams.
Contact Person: D.M. Parekh
Timings:
Phone: (0265) 2343721 / 2343781
Address: D-101, Taksh Complex, Opposite Sarabhai Society, Gotri Road, Vadodara
Gujarat - 390 021

Music
Classes are held for Children of 7 years and above on Guitar, Keyboards, Violin, Drums, Congas.
Contact Person: Charmaine Fernandes
Timings:
Phone: 9821945548
Address: 9, Upendra Nagar, Senapati Bapat Marg, Dadar, Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400028

Introductory Classical and Light Music
Classes are held for Children and Ladies. Introductory and advanced hindustani classical music classes for children as well as ladies morning as well as evening sessions. Group classes going on as well as individual.
Contact Person: Deepa Vaidya
Timings:
Phone: 26049852
Address: 5, Nook Apartment, North Avenue - S V Rd Junction, Santacruz (west ) Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400054

Classical Dance
Classes are held on Classical dance for the age group from 4 onwards. Nritya Nikunj Dance classes, teach classical dance (Odissi and Bharat Natyam).
Contact Person: Ketaki Shetge - More
Timings:Saturday: 5p.m. - 8 p.m,
Sunday: 11 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
Phone: 28985253
Address: A/2, Guru Tapasya, Kastur Park, Shimpoli Rd., Borivali (W), Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400092

Dance Class Western , Filmy, Freestyle
Classes are held on Dance for all age groups "SHOWSTOPPER"Academy of dance in association with Saroj Khan. Coaches students in Western Dancing and Body fitness, Provides opportunities to perform on Television shows like " Boogie Woogie" and Movies. Students of our class have performed and won in Boogie-Woogie, performed in Film award shows, Albums ...
Contact Person: Charanjit
Timings:
Phone: 9820197871, 25941021
Address: Gurav hall, 1st Floor, Sector 9A, Next to Vashi Bus Depot, Navi-Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400703

Dance Class( Kathak), Creative & Folk.
Classes are held for 4 yrs. onwards and above on Indian Classical Dance(Kathak), Creative & Rabindra Nritya, Folk dances of India.
Contact Person: Mrs. Phalguni
Timings: Saturday & Sunday( Morning/Evening).
Phone: 9810226331
Address: 1765, Lodhi Road Complex, New Delhi
New Delhi - 110003

Kathak Classes
Classes are held for Kathak between age group of 6-45 & above.
Contact Person: Meeta Banerjee
Timings: Thursday, Friday, Saturday (6 p.m.) & Sunday (10 a.m.)
Phone: 26243038
Address: 14/ 309, Samudra Darshan, Dhake Colony, Andheri (W), Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400053

Drawing, Dancing, Personality Development
Classes are held for Drawing, Dancing and Personality Development between age group of 2 to 12 years.
Contact Person: Sonal Shah.
Timings:
Phone: 25130697
Address: B25,Vasuki, Next to Somaiya College, Ghatkopar East, Mumbai.
Maharashtra - 400 077

Western Dance
Classes are held for Western Dance.
Contact Person: Chandan Kumar
Timings: 7.00 PM to 10.00 A.M.
Phone: 9899079641
Address: Laxmin Nagar, Delhi
Delhi - 110019

Bharatanatyam
Classes are held for kids of 5 years and above. Learn to Dance Bharatanatyam at "Upasana" academy of classical dancing..
Contact Person: Kala Srinivasan
Timings:
Phone: 022-25690627
Address: D/309, Usha Nagar, Village Road, Bhandup (West), Mumbai,
MAHARASHTRA - 400 078

Music and Language
Classes are held for all age group on Music and Languages. Learn to play Guitar and Keyboards. And learn the techniques of Dance. You can also learn English and French.
Please contact the below mentioned address for more information
Contact Person: Lawretta
Timings:
Phone: 28524056
Address: Row house #10, Custom Colony, Marol, Military road, Andheri (E), Mumbai.
MAHARASHTRA - 400 059

Bangla Gan, Classical ( Vocal) Music.
Classes are held for all age group on Bengali Music (Vocal), Hindi Classical(vocal). Lessons include basic techniques, Harmonium and Tanpura lessons. The sessions are available on week days. Interested music lovers may contact.
Contact Person: Suparna Ghosh
Timings:
Phone: 9821227442
Address: Thane Belapur Rd. Kalwa, Thane.
MAHARASHTRA - 400 605

Coaching in Western Dance & Body Fitness.
"SHOWSTOPPER"Academy of dance in association with Saroj Khan. Coaches students in Western Dancing and Body fitness, Provides opportunities to perform on Television shows like " Boogie Woogie" and Movies. Special batches for elders at the Powai Branch.
Contact Person: Charanjeet Singh Kalsi
Timings:
Phone: 9820197871, 25941021
Address: Gopal-Sharma School, Powai-Vihar complex, Powai. / Gurav Hall, Sector 9A, Near Vashi Depot, Vashi.
MAHARASHTRA - 400 076

Indian Classical Music
Classes held on Indian Classical Music for Adults and Children.
Contact Person: Kapil Trivedi
Timings:
Phone: 02673-242447
Address: 5008, Ramji Mandir, Netaji Bazar, 1580/A A/cs colony, Dahod.
Gujarat - 389151

Carnatic Vocal Music
Professional training in voice culture by acclaimed artistes held for Advanced Carnatic Music Learners.
Contact Person: Subbulakshmi / Rama
Timings:
Phone: 25307508
Address: 203, Stanford, Hiranandani Estate, Ghodbunder Road, Patlipada, Thane[West]
Maharashtra - 400607

Keyboard / Piano Classes on Piano / Keyboard for western pop / classical songs or Indian Songs held for all age groups.
Contact Person: Roma Shah
Timings:
Phone: 98202 77480 / 23681510
Address: 49/9 th Flr, 78 Nepean Sea Rd, Bombay
Maharashtra - 400006

Ben's Guitar Classes BEN'S GUITAR CLASSES:-
Guitar classes by experienced tutor. Beginner or Advanced level. Learn to read and write music.play latest and old pop hits. Timings are flexible. Duration of class is one hour on individual basis.
Contact Person: Mr. Bernard Fernandes
Timings:
Phone: 28389711
Address: Takshila, 34B/33, Off Mahakali caves Road, Andheri [east], Mumbai
Maharashtra - 400093

Guitar and Drum Channelrose music class:- Guitar [ lead, bass, rhythm] and Drum taught. Classes held for all age groups. Timing: learners convinient. Classes available: once in a week,twice in a week and thrice in a week depenting on fees. Also personal home class held here .
Contact Person: Hardy or Freahky
Timings:
Phone: 9892339098
Address: B/87, near airindia tank, opp. puja apt, kalina santacruz[east]. Mumbai
Maharashtra - 400098

Piano / Keyboard Keyboard classes for all age, from the basic, so that students can create their own tunes, weekly Tuesday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday in the evening 6.30 to 8.30 pm, classes taken at the students home. Note:- Students should have their own keyboard (Yamaha or Casio).
Contact Person: Raju
Timings: 6.30 to 8.30 pm
Phone: 9892094642
Address: 131/3, N.C.H Colony, Kanjurmarg(West), Mumbai-78
Maharashtra - 400078

Indian Filmy and Western Dances "Feel" Dance Academy,In Association with Saroj Khan, Learn Hindi Filmy, Western, Freestyle Dancin' with Dance Aerobics. WANT Michael's Magic? Madonna's Charishma? Nsync's Talent? Janet's Perfection? Usher's Smoothness? Simply watching them gyrate on MTV while you sprawl on the couch isn't doing much in the way of toning your arms, belly tush, so get up and learn their moves. Classes on Mon, Wed, Fri for Kids And Adults ( For All Age Groups ). Classes supervised by saroj khan.
Contact Person: Charanjeet
Timings:
Phone: 9820197871
Address: Sahiba Hall, Back Hall, Adarsh Nagar, in lane Adjacent to "Shreenath Hyundai", Nr.New Link Rd., Andheri (w), Mumbai. also in Heeranandani and in vashi.
Maharashtra - 400053

Sitar Music Classes on Classical Sitar training given for beginers to higher level held for all age groups.
Contact Person: Sanjeeb
Timings:
Phone: 24633876
Address: C-412, Defence Colony, New Delhi
Delhi - 110024

Vocal Music and Drawing Classes on Vocal Music and Drawing held for children and ladies. Training given from beginers to higher level.
Contact Person: Sonali
Timings:
Phone: 24633876
Address: C-412, Defence Colony, New Delhi
Delhi - 110024

Dance & Music Adhishree music centre :- learn guitar, tabla, classical dance, classical vocal, western dance, filmi dance, casio, dholak, harmonium. Classes held for 5 to 50 years of age.
Contact Person: Renu Chhabra
Timings: Evening 5 to 7 pm
Phone: 2245491, 9810369872
Address: 109 Bank Enclave, Laxmi Nagar, C-24 Guru Ram Das Nagar, Delhi
Delhi - 110092

Indian Filmy and Western Dances Kalpvriksha classical indian dance and music classes held for age group 5 to 20 years.
Contact Person: Kalpvriksha
Timings: evening 4-8 pm
Phone: 0135-2734031
Address: 152, Main rajpur road, Dehradun
Uttranchal - 248001

Guitar Professional Classes Lead Bass and Rhythm Guitar classes in the evnings from 6 to 10 pm and this will be tutions at the customers house for his/ her convenience. Classes held for girls and boys.
Contact Person: Kevin
Timings: 6 to 10 pm
Phone: 5738439
Address: Al Whada Street, po box 20831, Sharjah
Sharjah - 20831

Music and Dance Classes Aadeshree - Music school - Vocal music, Classical music, Choreography, Dance, instruments - Tabla, Harmoniam, Guitar and many more. Classes held for all age groups.
Contact Person: Renu
Timings:
Phone: 22454491
Address: 109, Bank enclave, Laxmi nagar, Delhi
Delhi - 110091

Latin Ballroom and World Folk Dances Let's Dance :- Classes in Jive, Rock n Roll, Salsa, Lambada, Tango, Samba as well as russian, italian, mexican etc folk dances. Interactive creative worksheets for kids. Mirabelle is a Silver Medallist in Latin dance with the FATD Australia. Classes held for all age groups. Venues: Bandra, lokhandwala, Hiranandani, Kemps Corner.
Contact Person: Mirabelle
Timings: weekdays evenings
Phone: 9821918442
Address: Fitness Trends, Lokhandwala, Forest Club, Hiranandani, Mumbai
Maharastra - 400059

Piano / Keyboard Music Class Piano / Keyboard Music Class teach you how to play the instrument. It is for people of all ages.
Contact Person: Roma
Timings:
Phone: 91-22-3694771
Address: 49 sagar kunj, 78 L.J. Rd, Mumbai
Maharastra - 400006

Indian and Western Dance Classes on Indian & Western Dance held for kids and adults supervised by Saroj Khan. Regular Competitions and Stage shows are held here.
Timings:
Contact: Charanjeet
Phone: 25941021
Address: Sarvagya , 113, 3rd floor, Mhada shopping centre, near oshiwara police station, above Shreejee's, Andheri[w], Mumbai - 400102
Maharashtra

Bharatha Natyam Classical Indian Dance held for age group 6 years and above during weekdays at evenings.
Timings:
Contact: Hema Harshavardhan
Phone: 26512863
Address: 102, Orchard Palace.Peter Dais Rd., Bandra (W), Mumbai - 400050
Maharashtra

Dance We teach Indian filmy and western dance and have regular activities like competitions and stage shows. Classes held for kids and adults.
Timings:
Contact: Charanjeet
Phone: 5941021
Address: 1st floor, Gurav hall, Sector 9a, Near Vashi bus depot. Vashi, New Bombay
Maharashtra
Dance Learn to play Dandiyas. (Navratri Special) Classes held for age group between 7 to 60 years.
Timings: Zoom in anytime.
Contact: Nikhil Doshi
Phone: 3443333
Address: Mumbai - 400003
Maharashtra

Music Learn playing Dandiya beats on drums. Classes held for age group between 4 and 40 years.
Timings: Anytime on Sundays and 8 pm onwards during week days.
Contact: Nikhil Shah
Phone: 5119445/9820028360
Address: 40/301,Shilpa,Garodia Nagar, Ghatkopar(E) near Sati Krupa Shopping Center Mumbai 400077
Maharashtra

Bharatha Natyam NARTAKI _School of Bharatha Natyam for girls 6 years and above.
Timings: Friday & saturday evenings.
Contact: S.Vijayalakshmi
Phone: 3634350
Address: GD Somani memorial School Cuffe Parade , Colaba. Mumbai 400023
Maharashtra

How do you tune a 12 string guitar?

I know a lot of people like to number the strings of a twelve-string guitar from one (high E) to twelve, but I find it much easier to number them as a six-string guitar, that is one through six, adding the designation "a" or "b" to each string as well. "A" means closer to the floor (as viewed when I am sitting with the guitar) and "b" is closer to the ceiling. The main reason I do this will, hopefully, be readily apparent when I tell you that all the "a" strings are tuned just like those of a regular guitar in standard tuning. So if you ignore the "b" strings for the moment, you'll see that the two guitars compare like this:

12 String 6 String equivalent
1a
1b E 1 E
2a
2b B 2 B
3a
3b G 3 G
4a
4b D 4 D
5a
5b A 5 A
6a
6b E 6 E

The first two sets of strings, the high E (1a and 1b) and the B strings (2aand 2b), are unison pairs. When struck, they sound the same note and this isthe same note as on the first and second string of a normal guitar. So let'sadd them to our chart:



12 String 6 String equivalent
1a E 1 E
1b E 1 E
2a B 2 B
2b B 2 B
3a G 3 G
3b
4a D 4 D
4b
5a A 5 A
5b
6a E 6 E
6b

And now the fun begins. The next four pairs of strings are tuned in octaves.This means that, although they are the same note in name - like the "do's" in"do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do" - they will be two different notes. String"3a," we already know is the same as the G string on regular guitar. String"3b" is tuned to the G note that its an octave higher. The simplest way to thinkabout it, if you're a linear person, is to think that it's the note at the twelfthfret of the G string. But it's just as easy to find these notes in first position.The G an octave higher than the open third string is at the third fret of thefirst string. Let's go on and find the rest of the notes:


12 String 6 String equivalent
1a E 1 E
1b E 1 E
2a B 2 B
2b B 2 B
3a G 3 G
3b G (octave higher) same as third fret on 1st string
4a D 4 D
4b D (octave higher) same as the third fret on the 2nd string
5a A 5 A
5b A (octave higher) same as the second fret of the 3rd string
6a E 6 E
6b E(octrave higher) same as the second fret of the 4th string

eyes upon a dance teacher

"Eyes Upon A Dance Teacher"

There are little eyes upon you
And they're watching night and day.
There are little ears that quickly
Take in every word you say.
There are little hands all eager
To do anything you do;
And a little girl who's dreaming
Of the day she'll be like you.

You're the little girl's idol,
You're the wisest of the wise.
In her little mind about you
No suspicions ever rise.
She believes in you devoutly,
Holds all you say and do;
She will say and do in your way
When she's all grown up like you.

There's a wide eyed little girl
Who believes you're always right;
And her eyes are always opened,
And she watches day and night.
You are setting an example
Every day in all you do,
For the little girl who's waiting
To grow up to be like you.



As if I am reaching for the stars,
outstretched arms, open and inviting.
Gentle smiles tell stories of lives and love,
the movements so enticing.
Smooth steps and turns, arms precise.
What a feeling, all those eyes and brightly colored lights.
I watch from the crowd and I see from the stage,
I yearn for the day when I can dance with such grace.
For now I simply practice and hope the curtain will raise,
And pour my heart out when dancing
and hope the music never dies.

dance little girl

"DANCE LITTLE GIRL"

Dance little girl to the tune in your heart
And the smiles of your mother and dad,
And your friends looking on-
Who are thrilled with the song
That bubbles from someome glad.
Dance little girl- little boy standing by
Is shy- and wants to be bold.
Take his hand little girl-
Understand little girl,
The treasures more precious than gold.
Dance little girl- for all in this world,
Dance wherever you go.
Lift your head little boy-
Never dread little boy-
Dance - and on with the show.

just to dance

"Just to Dance"

Just to dance--
just to let the music take you
in a way that seems to make you
feel suspended everytime you leave the floor...

Just to soar--
in a moment free and aerial
to rise magically ethereal,
like an angel in a gossamery swirl...

Just to whirl--
and to nimbly pirouette
into a twirling silhouette,
high on pointe, with muscles taut down to your toes...

Just to pose--
with body sculpted, statuesque,
to excute an arabesque,
and with fragile, artful grace sustain your stance...

Just to prance--
to step in flawless syncopation
with the corps in tight formation,
marking time with every heartbeat, every turn...

Just to yearn--
to be poetry in motion,
and, with disciplined devotion,
to create a thing of beauty and romance...

Just to dance!

dancers n performances

"Dancers"

I am a dancer
I twirl, leap and spin
I jump, piorette, and tap
I am a dancer
I feel pain and fear
I feel defeat and failure
Yet I keep going
I smile, I practice, I perform
I feel happiness and joy
I have grace and beauty
I hear the applause
I perform and do my best
Sometimes I fail
I don't give up
For I am a dancer
I am brave and strong
I dance not for fame and glory
But for how I feel inside
I am happiness,joy,love & excitment
Strife, talent, joy,
Determination and beauty
I am a dancer


"The Performance"

The spotlight brightens
The music begins
I'm up on my toes
as I twirl and spin
I jump and I leap
From one side to another
feeling just the music
never any other.
I raise up in pointe
then down in plie
performing what i've practiced
for so long every day.
To dance is my dream,
I can't let it die
for when I do dance
I feel I can fly
The world can disapear
My troubles can cease
For just one moment
I am truly at peace.

because i dance

"Because I Dance"


Because I dance doesn't mean that I am weak.
It doesn't mean that my "sport" is unimportant.
Because we (dancers) use tights and pink tutus.
Becuase we're dancers we sweat, and we work.
Because we're dancers simply means one thing;
We work until we simply cannot work anymore.
We work until our feet bleed, and our muscles are torn.
True athletes work until they simply cannot anymore,
And that is what dancing is all about.

Dance Quotes

1.Thousands of emotions well up inside me through out the day. They are released
when I dance. *Abraham

2.Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy--it
becomes possible. The effort involved in making a dancer's body is so long and
relentless, in many instances painful, the effort to maintain the technique so
grueling that unless a certain satisfaction is derived from the disciplining and
the punishing, the pace could not be maintained.

3.There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn
to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

4.The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and
willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a
half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the
classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too

5.The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to
the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in
your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that .

6.Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired

7.Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the
achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body
cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily
small deaths.

8. Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the
meaning to their movement can be another thing

9. All I ever needed was the music and the mirror

10. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge

11. Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music

12.If you want to dance seriously, do. You must think about it day and night, dream
about it,--desire it

13. Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

14. The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

15. Everyday there must be something I can't do, otherwise it's boring

16. Great dancers are not great because of thier technique, they are great because
of thier passion

17. It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer

18.
Dance, an Art Form
The Body, an Instrument
Learn To Play The Instrument
So You Can Master The Art Form.

19.The trained dancer must not only have grace and elegance, but also the leap of an
Olympic hurdler, the balance of a tight-rope walker and panther-like strength
and agility.

20. Many of the simplest exercises become harder in the centre...

21.Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert,
always tense, but see policemen don't have to be beautiful at the same time.

22. The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting
and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space

23. The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for
themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a
play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as
perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.

24. It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them
accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize
them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human
sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to
describe it by.

25.It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the
instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it
completely

26. There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as
a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques;
second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm
of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And
finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity,
surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

27. Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas
retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so
excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

28. Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking
man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which
carries away all.

29. The dance exists exclusively in terms of the movement of the body, not only in
the obvious sense that the dancer moves, but also in the less apparent sense
that its response in the spectator is likewise a matter of body movement.

30. Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very
old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art
except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over

31. Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with
motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with
motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a
means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--
that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself

32. The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the
muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the
sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the
risky adventures of thrusting and falling--these are the tools of the dancer

33. What is modern about modern dance is its resistance to the past, its response
to the present, its constant redefining if the idea of dance.

34. Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and
gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind
words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment
you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

35. I would like to make it clear from the start that these dances are primarily
meant to be a kind of food for the eye. If they evoke dramatic images and
riddles, the key to their solution lies not so much in the brain, but in the
senses and the eye of the spectator.

36. I’m very excited about dance and love it with a deep passion. I also struggle,
tire and become discouraged. But what has always revived me...has been the
rebirth of energy each time the creative process is awakened and artistic
activity begins to unfold even in some infinitesimal measure.

37. To dance is to challenge the body which is also the self. To generate an action
which has a force of its own and allow the movement to penetrate the inner
sensibilities, or to calculate the action and try to tune out--this is difficult,
perhaps impossible.

38. Dancing should look easy; like an optical illusion. It should seem effortless.
When you do a difficult variation, the audience is aware that it is demanding and
that you have the power and strength to do it. But in the end, when you take your
bow, you should look as if you were saying, ‘Oh, it was nothing. I could do it
again.’

39. One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of
training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a
certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.'
I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no
one's pupil but God's.

40. Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your
life. Its the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and
envy.
41. 1. Beginning dancer. Knows nothing.
2. Intermediate dancer. Knows everything. Too good to dance with beginners.
3. Hotshot dancer. Too good to dance with anyone.
4. Advanced dancer. Dances everything. Especially with beginners.

42. He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.

43. What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.
Dance isn't just about fancy footwork. It requires grace, discipline, and major
muscles.

44. Socrates learned to dance when he was 70 because he felt that an essential part
of himself had been neglected.

45. Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget
all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget
who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the
dance.

46. Technique--bodily control--must be mastered only because the body must not
stand in the way of the soul's

47. Dance is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend
your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing
bigger than that: your dancing spirit.

48. Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.

49. I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.

50. Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.

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Irish dance

Agata Kowalczyk (Irish dance)

The instructor and choreographer of the Irish and Scottish dance school ISTA. For many years she has danced with folk dance teams. In 1997 she was given a Dance Instructor`s Diploma (specialization: folk dance) by the Ministry of Education. She worked out various techniques of dance: folk, classical, Irish. From 2004 she works for the Irish and Scottish Dance School ISTA as an instructor and co-choreographer of the Dance Group ISTA.

broadway jazz

Wurtz Jones Michelle (broadway jazz)


Michelle Jones Wurtz holds a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her own instructors included Judith Jamison, now the Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Alexi Yudenich , a Silver Medallist at International Ballet Competition; (second only to Mikhail Baryshnikov); Barbara Sandanato, a scholarship recipient at the School of American Ballet; (home school to the New York City Ballet), Patricia Thomas of the Alvin Ailey Company and Martha Graham School in New York, Milton Myers, head of the Modern Dance Department at the famous Jacob's Pillow Program in Massachusetts, and Peter Bertini of the Garth Fagan Dance Company, to name a few. She has danced professionally with Group Motion, Freedom Theatre, Footfalls Modern Dance Company, and currently with Contempra Dance Theatre where she serves as the Assistant Artistic Director as well as Rehearsal Director. She has also performed with the world famous Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; the company that has been on the cutting edge of dance as a form of expression and art. Michelle received one of only eight grants in the entire Delaware Valley from the Philadelphia Dance Alliance to study choreography from New York's most renowned Composition Instructor, Martha Myers. She has also choreographed for the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Independent Choreographers Exchange, and received both "Critic`s Choice" and "Best Bet" reviews from Philadelphia dance critics; and she herself is a member of the National Dance Critic`s Association. Ms. Wurtz also is the owner of the Pottstown Dance Theater performing arts school. Some of Ms. Wurtz` students are now full company members in Alvin Ailey, Momix, Dance Theater of Harlem, and Atlanta Ballet. Michelle is planning on attending Graduate School this fall, and is a certified Pilates instructor on every piece of Pilates equipment. Ms. Wurtz has been assisting Gail Vartanian for the past 6 years choreographing and directing the Contempra Dance Theatre.

modern dance

Beata Wrzosek (classic dance, modern dance)

A graduate of Ballet School in Łódź. From 1968 to 1988 was engaged to ballet team of the Grand Theatre in Łódź. Since 1988 she has been a soloist of Polish Dance Theatre and since 1995 - first soloist of the Grand Theatre in Poznań. She is an esteemed choreographer and pedagogue of the Poznań Ballet School. In 1990 she received Young Creators Prize of Poznań and in 1991 she got Leon Wójcikowski`s medal for the most talented young dancer. Her chorographical works were presented during contests in Vienna, Varna, London etc. She won the 1st prize at the Young Choreographers` Debuts Contest in Gdańsk. She danced in: Adam - "Giselle", Theodorakis - "Grek Zorba", Miasin - "Trójkątny kapelusz", Wycichowska - "Faust", "Symfonia koncertująca", Wołk - Karaczewski - "Msza koronacyjna", Veredon - "Sługa dwóch panów", Gołaska - "Shomon", "Legende of Hell", "Vivre", Wesołowski - "Harnasie", Fokin - "Sylfidy", Cullberg - "Romeo and Julliet", Czajkowski - "The Nutcracker". She created choreography to: Halévy - "The Jew", Dębski - "Piaskowy zegar", Penderecki - Violin Concerto, Sybelius - III Symfonia, Mahler - Adegietto.

salsa again

Iza and Jose Torres (salsa)


Musicians, organizers "Carnaval de Salsa". Jose is a virtuoso of percussion instruments; he comes from Kuba, but lives in Poland. He founded the first Salsa Orchestra in Poland. He has been performing in Poland for over 20 years, co-operating with polish well-known artists: Maryla Rodowicz, Kayah, Ewa Bem, Urszula, Maanam, Ryszard Rynkowski, Stanisław Soyka, Grzegorz Ciechowski, Raz Dwa Trzy and many more. He gave concerts and recorded with best polish jazz musicians: Tomasz Stańko, Wojciech Karolak, Zbigniew Namysłowski, Jarosław Śmietana, Leszek Możdżer. He performed on over 40 recordings, including original soundtracks to films "Blood and wine" (with Jack Nicholson), "Bandit", "Father`s right", etc. For over 10 years has been occupying the first place on the Musician-of-the-Year Top list (category: percussion instruments) in Poland`s most popular jazz magazine "Jazz Forum". He was an artistic manager of TV show "Exotic Summer with the Trio" (September 99) and well-known talk show "Evening with Jagielski". Performed during TV programs such as "Evening with Alice" and "Evening with a vampire".