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Bollywood: shahzadnd's Blog on Flixya: "Ballroom dancing has bounced back because of the exposure this great sport has received through the media and the various dance shows b..."

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Ballroom dancing has bounced back because of the exposure this great sport has received through the media and the various dance shows broadcasted on numerous channels. A sort of craze has developed, especially amongst the youth and the teenagers. If you are also willing to learn ballroom dance, then you have to keep the following things in mind before you get on the floor.

First of all choose your dance form. If you are passionate about dancing and if it is your dream to become a dancer, well then watch its various forms and pick the favorite one, the one which you would love to perform. Then you can surf through the internet or the local newspapers, radio or television or just stroll down the city to find out a good dance class or a dance teacher for yourself.

Once you have done that you can start to learn ballroom dance basics and put your heart and soul into it. Diverse universities across America offer facilities for ballroom dancing. It is rightly said that "practice makes man perfect". To emerge into a good dancer, a lot of practice is very essential. You should not become conscious of the crowd while dancing and have no hesitation of any kind. Moreover, you should go online and find out more about the dance form you have selected and even watch dance acts or performances of others.

It could be a television show or a competition or simply a dance party. You get to pick up various techniques and styles and even learn to create and enhance your own techniques. The habit of warming up before any dance is really a good thing to do. It helps you come into the mode and the mood of the dance performance. You muscles have to be stretched and loosened up. You should always go for a five to six minute warm up session before the practice or the performance begins.

When the learning session begins, you have to get involved but at the same time be careful. Foot stamping, tangling while turning and bumping into each other is a common thing to happen while you are engaged in the activity.

Footwork is the most important technique in any ballroom dancing form. It is always wise to keep you feet together while learning than to keep those apart, so as to learn to balance yourself. While managing your kick steps you have to take care that your toes point downwards and not upwards. Another important component when you're out to learn ballroom dance is catching the beat. Once, you learn to do that, you have come half way for sure. Balancing also includes a bit of grounding work to be done. Grounding is to place your feet on the floor and avoid slipping.

To manage this properly, you have to push yourself to the ground through the centre of you feet. Grounding would also enhance your techniques and make your footwork look clean and clear. In case you are willing to go beyond the basics and want to learn ballroom dance forms for performances at social events, college functions, parties etc. then you can go for more than one forms of this dance.

If you wish to learn an easy form, then tango is the form you should opt for. You can join a class or learn it online, but one thing is rest assured that once you start to learn ballroom dance, you will definitely want more and more of it. http://bollywoodhouseful.blogspot.com/

Erkin Bekbolotov

Pakistani fashion designers are taking Pakistani women fashion, as said by "Erkin Bekbolotov" especially shalwar kamiz (salwar kameez, shalwar kameez) at the next level. We love to see the changes Pakistani women fashion designers are trying to make in this centuries old dress to keep it up with modern days demands.
It is the usual everyday dress for both men and women in Pakistan where it may be transliterated into English as shalwar-qamiz.

DEEPIKA PADUKONE BIOGRAPHY

• Deepika Padukone was born on January 5, 1986, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her family moved to Bangalore, India, when she was eleven months old. Padukone is of Mangalorean origin, and her mother tongue is Konkani. She is a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin, and her lineage hails from Padukone village in Kundapura Taluk in the Udupi District of the state of Karnataka, India. Her father, Prakash Padukone, is a retired badminton player of international repute, and her mother is a travel agent. Padukone also has a younger sister, Anisha, born in 1991.
  Padukone attended Sophia High School in Bangalore. She completed her pre-university studies at Mount Carmel College in Bangalore, India. While in high school she played badminton at the state level. However, she was not keen on pursuing a career as a badminton player and abandoned it to concentrate on her ICSE exams.
  
  Career
  Modeling

While in college, Padukone pursued a career in modeling. She was spotted in a ramp competition in NLS, Bangalore. Over the years, she has modeled for such Indian brand names as Liril, Dabur Lal powder, Close-Up toothpaste and Limca, and has been "brand ambassador" for the Jewels of India retail jewelery show. The cosmetics company Maybelline made her its international spokesperson.At the fifth annual Kingfisher Fashion Awards she was awarded the title "Model of the Year". Shortly afterward, she was chosen as one of the models for the Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar for 2006 and won two trophies at the Idea Zee Fashion Awards: "Female Model of the Year - (Commercial Assignments)" and "Fresh Face of the Year". Padukone was also chosen as the brand ambassador of Kingfisher Airlines and later Levi Strauss and Tissot SA.
Acting
After pursuing a successful career in modeling, Padukone branched out into acting. She started by starring in the music video for the song Naam Hai Tera from the independent pop album Aap Kaa Surroor by Himesh Reshammiya.In 2006, Padukone made her cinematic debut in the Kannada film Aishwarya starring opposite actor Upendra. She later made a successful Bollywood debut in 2007 with Farah Khan's international hit Om Shanti Om opposite Shahrukh Khan. The film featured her portraying 1970s star Shantipriya and later as Sandhya aka Sandy, a young woman who looks exactly like Shantipriya. Her performance was well received, earning the actress a Filmfare Best Female Debut Award as well as her first Filmfare Best Actress nomination. Taran Adarsh from indiaFM noted, "Deepika has all it takes to be a top star — the personality, the looks and yes, she's supremely talented too. Standing in the same frame as SRK and getting it right is no small achievement. She comes as a whiff of fresh air!"Padukone next appeared in Siddharth Anand's Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008) opposite Ranbir Kapoor and then the Warner Bros.-Rohan Sippy collaboration, Chandni Chowk to China, released on January 16, 2009. She recently starred in Imtiaz Ali's Love Aaj Kal (2009) opposite Saif Ali Khan.

• Personal life

Padukone is currently dating fellow actor Ranbir Kapoor, son of actors Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh

Awards and nominations

Filmfare Awards
Winner
2008: Filmfare Best Female Debut Award; Om Shanti Om
2008: Sony Head N Shoulders Fresh Face of the Year Award; Om Shanti Om
Nominated
2008: Filmfare Best Actress Award; Om Shanti Om Star Screen Awards
Winner
2008: Star Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Female; Om Shanti Om
2008: Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1 along with Shahrukh Khan; Om Shanti Om Zee Cine Awards
Winner
2008: Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut; Om Shanti Om
Nominated
2008: Zee Cine Award for Best Actor - Female; Om Shanti Om IIFA Awards
Winner
2008: IIFA Awards' Best Debutant (Female); Om Shanti Om
Nominated
2008: IIFA Best Actress Award; Om Shanti Om Stardust Awards
Nominated
2008: Stardust Superstar of Tomorrow - Female; Om Shanti Om Apsara Film and Television Producers Guild Awards
Winner
2008: Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards' Best Female Debut; Om Shanti Om
Asian Film AwardsNominated2008: Asian Film Awards' Best Actress; Om Shanti Om
2009: Asian Film Awards' Best Actress; Chandni Chowk to China Other Awards
2007: Star's Sabsey Favourite, Sabsey Favourite Nayi Heroine; Om Shanti Om
2007: HT Café Film Awards, Best Newcomer Award (Female); Om Shanti Om
2008: Reebok Zoom Glam Awards, Glam Debutant (Female); Om Shanti Om
2008: Annual Central European Bollywood Awards, Breakthrough Role (Female); Om Shanti Om