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Dance India Dance 
The promotional logo image of Dance India DanceFormat Reality, dance Created by UTV Software Communications Opening theme Dance India Dance title song composed by Adil Prashant Country of origin India Production Running time 90 min (approximately) Broadcast Original channel Zee TV Picture format 480i and 720i (SDTV) Original run January 30, 2009 – April 23, 2010 External links Website LUX Dance India Dance is a reality dance show that airs on the Indian satellite television channel Zee TV. The show has been produced by UTV Software Communications and has become India's largest dance-based reality show. The show is choreographed by some of the most popular Indian choreographers, such as Terence Lewis, Remo D'Souza and Geeta Kapoor. Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty is the grandmaster of the show. The show's title track was composed by Adil and Prashant and the title was inspired by Kannada film Dance Raja Dance. The show airs every Friday and Saturday. The winner of the first season was Salman Khan (Mohammed Y. K. Ghouse) from Bangalore, representing Remo's team; the winner for the second season was Shakti Mohan from Mumbai, representing Terence's team.
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Concept
The show gathers raw talent aged 15 to 25 from all over India. Once chosen, the contestants are trained by professional Bollywood choreographers. Thereafter the participants compete against each other. Some of the dance forms that are taught to the contestants are ballet, acrobatics, shadow dancing, mid-air dancing, Broadway theatre, contemporary, Bollywood, Latin, ballroom, and hip-hop. The Grand Finale of the first season was on Saturday, May 30, 2009.
So far, there have been several series of Dance India Dance:
- Dance India Dance (season 1) - solo contestants
- Dance India Dance (season 2) - solo contestants
- Dance India Dance Li'l Masters - for young dancers
- Dance India Dance Doubles - for paired dancers
- Dance Ke Superstars - contestants from season 1 competing against contestants from season 2
Auditions
The contestants get a chance to perform before the talented panel of judges composed of Master Terrence Lewis, Master Remo d'souza and Master Geeta Kapur. The mega auditions are held before the grand master Mithun Chakraborty who will select top 18 contestants for the show. Top 3 contestants who will receive maximum number of votes will get a chance to participate in mega auditions.
Offline Auditions
Auditions for Dance India Dance Season 3 will be held as a multi-city auditions from October and all through November, dancers across India can come to their nearest centre / cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Baroda, Raipur, Indore, Patna, Lucknow, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Guwahati, Bhubaneshwar, Hyderabad, Dehradun, Chennai, Kolhapur, Imphal, Rajkot and Bangalore.
Online Auditions
Dancers can also participate in the auditions online via the Official DID 3 Website. This website has been created to help and enable dancers in every part of the country to upload videos of their performances. Participants can then share their performances online to get maximum votes and get shortlisted for the mega auditions.
Seasons
Finalists
Male contestants: Salman Khan (Remo Ke Rangeelay), Siddhesh Pai (Geeta Ki Gang), Jai Kumar Nair (Terence Ki Toli), Dharmesh Yelande(Geeta Ki Gang) and Punit Pathak (Remo Ke Rangeelay) Female contestants: Alisha Singh (Terence Ki Toli), Shakti Mohan (Terence Ki Toli) and Binny Sharma (Geeta Ki Gang) Season 1
Main article: Dance India Dance (season 1)The final show aired on May 30, 2009. The winner was Salman Khan (from Remo Ke Rangeelay). Alisha Singh (from Terence Ki Toli) was named first runner-up. Siddhesh Pai (from Geeta Ki Gang) was named second runner-up. Jai Kumar Nair (from Terence Ki Toli) was third runner-up in this season.
Season 2
Main article: Dance India Dance (season 2)Season 3
Zee TV announced the return of the Dance India Dance Season 3. DID 3 auditions will be held across 21 cities in India.[1]
Dance India Dance Li'l Masters
Main article: Dance India Dance Li'l MastersThousands of dancing wonders from the age group 5-13 were auditioned for DID L'il Masters by Remo D'Souza, Geeta Kapoor, Terence Lewis and Sandip Soparrkar. The auditions were held in Delhi, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Nagpur, Guwahati, Kolkatta, Patna, Vadodara and Mumbai. From these, 100 stars were selected by the jury for the mega auditions in Mumbai.
Jeetumoni was declared winner of DID L'il Masters after the finale.
The judges of DID L'il Masters are Bollywood's director-producer Farah Khan and India's ballroom sensation Sandip Soparrkar.
Dance India Dance Doubles
Main article: Dance India Dance Doubles12 finalist couples were chosen out of thousands aspirants purely based on talent and performances. The judges of this season were Grandmaster Mithun Chakraborty, Geeta Kapoor, Marzi Pestonji and Rajeev Surti.The winner of this season are Amit and Falon.
See also
References
- ^ "DID 3 Official Website". DID3. http://did3.india.com. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
External links
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