CELEBRATING   DANCE 

FREE Global Online Event 

Sunday 27th  February 2022

2pm till 8pm  GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)

LET US PRAY FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION TO RUSSIA/UKRAINE TENSION AND HOPE THEY SOON FIND AN AMICABLE SOLUTION

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Dr Honey Kalaria

(U.K)

2.00 pm

Host Welcome

Dr Honey Kalaria

Dr. Kalaria is a multi-award winning  dance professional, media presenter and mind-body-soul expert, offering online training and coaching to global audiences to help develop  creative hobbies and performing arts careers, providing education and inspiration through “Power Of Creative Arts” online news site and empowering audiences through “Keys To Life Mastery” interviews.

Honey’s achievements include receiving an Honorary Doctorate of Arts & Best Bollywood International Artist Award, Advisory Member of the National Dance Council; Ambassador to the Duke Of Edinburgh Award. “Best Dance Coach in UK” Award 2020 from Media Innovation Global Awards.

Website: www.honeykalariaofficial.com

Ambikha Devi

(Hong Kong)

2.05 pm

 Ambikha Devi

 Resilience through Dance and Shamanic Practices

Ambikha Devi is an internationally recognized with her teachings and offering From Asia, Europe, and the US. She studied with many Masters and Gurus in many Healing Modalities.
Ambikha’s passion for Dance and Conscious Movement lead her to birth her own Creatrix of Dance called Evolutionary Dance. It’s a collection of all of her 22 years of healing Journey, awakenings and self exploration through Yoga, Qigong, Conscious Dance, Somatic Bodywork, Breathwork and Theraphy.. then she weaved them into a Dance.
As for her Life is a Dance..!
Evolutionary Dance is a process of Evolution through Dance, like the process of Metamorphosis to a butterfly. Evolution means something have transformed, it’s always inviting us to always upgrading ourselves. To not get stuck. Let every returning is a resurrection of a new You, and Evolve You, each time we step into dance floor is like stepping into the unknown, something always transform as we step out.
We step Into the dance to explore the depth of our being. It’s a journey of evolution through dance.
Website: ambikha.com

Jigar & Suhrad Soni

(India)

2.30 pm

 Jigar Soni & Suhrad Soni

Energy of Raas and Garba

Soni’s School of Garba dance has been founded by Jigar Soni and Suhrad Soni to promote the authenticity of the beautiful dance form Garba.
Gold medalist by the Government of India for folk dance, the Soni Brothers have been working relentlessly to protect this beautiful form from merging into various western / Bollywood dance styles.
They have managed this in 28 cities from 9 countries worldwide and are on a mission to Take Garba Global in its purest form.

Kamlesh Patel 

(India)

3.00 pm

Kamlesh Patel 

Dancing on Hands!

Kamlesh Patel has conquered physical disability to become a wonder dancer. Paralysed in both legs, he overcame great hardships to become a performer and was one of the star performers on a dance reality show.
The pride of Baroda, that is what many call Kamlesh Patel, a physically handicapped dancer who has given more than 1,000 performances in India and abroad. He maybe restricted because of his handicap, but what he has achieved due to his determination is an inspiration to many. A few years later Kamlesh was operated upon in Bangalore and Vishakapatnam, but there was no improvement. “I think it was God’s wish that I remain handicapped. He wanted to send a message through me to all handicapped people what mental strength and passion can do to an individual,” says the man who was the star of television reality show, Dance India Dance in 2009.

Dr Honey Kalaria

(U.K)

3.30 pm

Dr Honey Kalaria

How Dance Transforms Lives

Honey Kalaria has been involved in the field of dance and performing arts, appearing in countless television programs, stage musicals and choreographing East West film projects. She is: A Multi Award-Winning Creative Dance Expert With Over 30 Years Of Experience In The Field Of Art, Culture & Entertainment; Examiner & Founder of Honeys Dance Academy which ran 20 dance schools throughout UK; Talent Ambassador & Achievement Coach; Advisory Member To The National Dance Council; Ambassador For The Duke Of Edinburgh Award; Facilitator of Health, Wellbeing And Spiritual Growth Programs Using Power Of Meditation for over 20 years; Popular Radio And TV Presenter; Nominated As One Of The Top Three Asian Businesswomen In The UK; Global Ambassador For The Commonwealth Entrepreneurs’ Club; And has also been Member Of the local Mayors Fundraising Appeal Committee. 
Honey’s dance training includes 
·       Bharat Natyam training in Gujarat, Kathak training in Mumbai & Folk Dance Styles of India.
·       Diploma In Bollywood Acting at Asha Chandra Acting School in Mumbai
·    IDTA (International Dance Teachers Association) Medal Tests in various Dance Styles including Disco, Rock and Roll and Latin American
·       Examiner of Bollywood Dance; 
Honey is a Life Member of United Kingdom Alliance of Professional Dance Teachers (UKA), and has also devised a Bollywood Exams Technique Book and Syllabus for UKA, which has now been used to help qualify many Bollywood dance teachers and professionals in the UK and worldwide. Today she will share how dance transforms peoples lives on so many levels.

Darshini Joshi

(U.K)

4.00 pm

Darshini Joshi

Mythological Dance & Cultural Stage Productions 

Darshini has worked in several event management organizations in India and the UK. Her background in Public Relations and Mass Media Communications gives her an added advantage whilst dealing with the press and celebrity agents. Darshini is a trained classical Indian dancer and has performed on various prestigious platforms over the last 25 years. She is the founder and principal teacher at Sanskriti Guru in North London. Her school offers training to children and Adults in Indian Dance, Hindi Language, Indian Instruments, Music and Drama.  Directing, choreographing, scripting and producing Musical Dance Ballets over the last decade has been Darshini’s passion and expertise.

www.chandelierevents.co.uk/darshini-joshi/

Sandip Soparrkar

(India)

4.30 pm

Sandip Soparrkar

Rise of Latin American & Bollywood Dance Fusion

Sandip Soparrkar is an Indian Latin and ballroom dancer, Bollywood choreographer, actor, columnist, Dance Reality Show judge, Radio Jockey and a Ted X speaker, who holds a doctorate in World Mythology Folklore and also an Honorary Doctorate in Performing arts. He has been honoured with 3 National Excellence Awards and 1 National Achievement Award by the Government of India and he is also the recipient of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for Social Achievement. He founded “India Dance Week”, which combines Indian and international dance and also became a philanthropist with this Worldwide initiative “Dance for a Cause” where he uses dance, drama and music as a medium to raise awareness of various social issues in the society.

He is the Chairperson of India Fine Art Council (IFAC) and extensively promotes artists from all fields. Sandip has been bestowed with the title of ‘The World Peace Ambassador’ by The World Peacekeepers Movement. He is also the first Indian to be certified by the Ballroom Dance Training School, Bonn, Germany and honoured with the National Achievement Award.

www.sandipsoparrkar.com

Sharron Rose 

(U.S.A)

5.00 pm

HOST

Sharron Rose

Sharron Rose, M.A. Ed., president of Sacred Mysteries Productions, is a filmmaker, choreographer, composer, author and teacher. As a scholar in world dance, music and religion, her training and research includes ballet, modern dance, Kathak, Middle Eastern, Flamenco and African dance. She is also known for her unique reconstruction of the dance, music and ritual of Ancient Egypt. She has received grants and awards for her work including a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to conduct extensive research into the art, culture and spiritual traditions of North India where she became the first American disciple of Kathak Queen Sitara Devi.

Sharron has lectured, performed and presented her films in numerous universities, spiritual centers, cultural organizations and museums and was a consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of The Path of the Priestess: A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine. and is currently completing a cd, The Nectar of Bliss dedicated to the healing power of the Divine Feminine in cultures throughout the world.

www.quantumqimovie.com

Tahya

(U.S.A)

5.00 pm

Tahya

Systrum with an invitation to Discover Musician-Priestesses of Egyptian Goddess Hathor

Tahya is an ACE-certified instructor, a Qigong practitioner, designer of the Ceremonial Systrum™ and a vibrant dancer with over 40 years of teaching and performance experience both nationally and internationally. In her classes, she invites participants to explore practical, magical rhythms and millennia-old traditions dating back to when women were the sacred timekeepers. Slow down & learn rhythms designed to kindle your creative spirit for relaxation & healing.

Frame drum, systrum, finger cymbals, singing bowls are all beautiful tools you can enjoy using and in so doing, feel empowered as you learn about the sacred drum used in ancient Goddess civilizations and realize hand drumming is practical for your health & well-being!

Balance outer world circumstances with rhythm and movements that raise our vibration, elevate our joy and enliven our creative spirit: We ARE Resilient. Renewed. Resolute. Stronger. Our hearts expand with true purpose, grace, love, compassion and creativity.

www.Tahya.com

Jared Hill 

(U.S.A)

5.30 pm

Jared Hill 

The Science of Street Dance

Jared Hill, a native to Colorado, found his love for movement at a young age, being inspired by music and the freedom he felt through dance. He began exploring “Steppn” and other social dances that created a platform to explore the evolving styles of Hip Hop at that time. With a strong Hip Hop influence he found connections in organizations that were Hip Hop based, which gave an alternative to the growing youth violence in the early 90s.

Because of his unique skill and ability to captivate an audience, Jared was sought after to be the opening act for groups like Boyz II Men, 112, Case, Dave Hollister, Adina Howard, Naughty by Nature, and numerous other R&B recording artists in the late 1990’s. In 2002 Jared placed number One in the nation of over 130,000 competitors in the Newport Rhythm and Sound dance competition with his infamous “Hat Dance”. In the Summer of 2007 Jared had the opportunity to train and perform with his good friend Gary Kendall (one of the founding members of the infamous Jabbawockeez crew) in his HipHop musical production Monster Shop Bumpn.

Jared has also been featured in music videos like “Like a Hobo” by Charlie Winston, ranked #1 in Paris in 2010, “Don’t Let Me Fall” and “Strange Clouds” by B.O.B in 2012 and 2013, and B.O.B’s Air Bender in 2016. Throughout his career he’s toured in France, Switzerland, Korea, China, Singapore, and Indonesia.

Now, based on his years of experience inside HipHop as well as other spiritual circles, Jared has turned his focus to training and developing the next generation of dancers through his program the Science of Street Dance.

Neeta Singh

(U.S.A)

6.00 pm

Neeta Singh

Dancing for  Happiness 

Neeta Singh is an Ayurveda wellness consultant and healing with yog therapies specialist she is also a certified yoga/meditation teacher. Neeta grew up in north India. She has been a lifetime student & long-time teacher of Yoga and Ayurveda, Neeta is also the founder of Neeta Naturals Ayurvedic Wellness company, Neetanaturals.com. And principal founder of integrated dance therapy by combining yoga and classical dance moments and created this healing form to ignite transformational inner strength and happiness through movement and breath sequences. Strengthen, lengthen and tone your whole body.

www.neetanaturals.com

Sharron Rose

(U.S.A)

6.30 pm

Sharron Rose

Summary and Shiva Dance Video

Shanti Shivani

(U.S.A)

7.00 pm

Shanti Shivani

Homage to Shiva –

Lord of the Dance

Shanti Shivani is a singer/nada yogini/sound healer, internationally acclaimed seminar leader and recording artist. She is one of the few Western pioneers bringing the sacred traditions of Nada Yoga and Dhrupad, the most ancient style of Hindustani classical music, to the West. She brings a wealth of vocal, meditative and movement  experience to her classes. Since 1981, Shanti has been the disciple or parampara student of the premier family of the Dhrupad lineage, the Dagar family, who has been passing on the Dhrupad tradition for twenty generations.
On her quest for healing and self-realization through sound, she also studied with renowned Western musicians and sound healers such as Fabien Maman of the Academy of Sound, Colour and Movement. Frédérick Leboyer, the father of natural childbirth, with whom she collaborated for several years, was a key mentor for her, as he helped her understand the profound connection between voice, breath and movement.
Shanti also dedicated herself to learning different forms of movement disciplines (Hatha Yoga, Wholistic Body/Mind training, Qi Gong, Wu Chi, Tao Yin Fa, Unity in Motion) with acclaimed Asian, European and American teachers.

www.shantishivani.com

Antonia Minnecola

(U.S.A)

7.30 pm

Antonia Minnecola

Homage to the Guru: Sitara Devi and the Benares Lineage

Antonia Minnecola is a Kathak dancer, the disciple of India’s celebrated dancer/filmstar/personality/legend Sitara Devi, with whom she studied for nearly three decades, originally under the auspices of two American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowships. 
Antonia has appeared in major festivals and tours worldwide, including the Bay Area’s Other Minds Festival, Stanford Lively Arts, SF Ethnic Dance Festival, SF Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, the Auckland Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and Morocco’s Sacred Music Festival. Twice a recipient of the Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for Choreography, she has employed the Kathak style to present contemporary dance works, often collaborating with artists of different genres. As a soloist, she is often accompanied by tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, and appears with his touring ensemble “Masters of Percussion”. 
A producer of many classical Indian and world music concerts and tours,  Antonia co-founded Moment Records and has produced 24 recordings including the San Francisco Jazz Sessions in which she appears.

www.kathakar.com

Zuleikha

(U.S.A)

8.00 pm

Zuleikha

Int’l Storydancer ~ Movement Artist

Zuleikha is an international performer and educator whose work inspires dynamic creativity and rejuvenation through the profound art of movement. Renowned for her global work with women, children and families, “storydance” performances, innovative classes, and collaborations celebrating the poetry of Rumi, she is also the creator of Take a Minute™, an exercise program to increase vitality and resilience. Founder and executive director of The Storydancer Project, a non-profit organization that serves girls, women, children and families facing challenging life circumstances, Zuleikha is a recipient of several awards for her outstanding work in the world promoting positive personal and social change.
Honors include first place at the Indian International Palliative Care Conference for her abstract on her Relaxation Therapeutic Health Exercise Program© for palliative care patients and their families, created in partnership with CanSupport, Delhi, India.

Wai Ching Lee

(Singapore)

Dame Rev. Dr. Wai Ching Lee

Panelist 

Dame Rev. Dr. Wai Ching Lee, an intuitive healer, holistic bodywork therapist who created Infinity Quantum Qi Gong in 1990 after a spiritual awakening. She started practising Qi Gong in the temples with her mother and her passion for movement and exercise expanded to aerobics and exploring different genres of dance during the disco era. TranscenDance was birthed from weaving the consciousness of Soma- body intelligence and cellular memory with the embodiment of transformation in the physical body. She has also developed Wai Ching, a therapeutic water dance to bring the benefits of Tai Chi and healing in water to support the inner and outer fluids balance as a return to the amniosis of the womb. In addition, she also offers Dancing with the Divine, embodying the different qualities of deities during an 8 days retreat in Bali and Bhutan. Wai Ching has led TranscenDance and Ecstatic Dances in both Bali and Malaysia, as well as trained others in Somatic Healing.

THANK YOU 

Technical Director –  Nishit Kotak 

Creative Director – Sarita Menon

Production Director/Anchor  – Dr Honey Kalaria

Kitchen Episodes Producer/Host – Seema Bhatia 

Luxembourg Producer/Host  – Kiran Robinson

Mauritius Co-Ordinator/Host – Saivani Samboo

U.S.A Co-Ordinator/Host – Sharron Rose

Host Director – Simran Ahuja 

Media Team – Kesh Morjaria 

Host Team –  Dr Honey Kalaria and Sharron Rose

Back Up Team –  Dr Lalit Sodha, Dr Sheila Dobee, Dr Milen Shah,         Dr Wai Ching Lee, Shivali Ruparelia, Ravi & Sushma Bhanot,          Deepa Vithlani and Shivani Vithlani.

Facilitator Team – Various

Channel Partners – Hindu Forum of Europe, MentalHealth_Connect, Hindu Matters in Britain, Enrich TV, Sanskruti, Simran Ahuja Official, Diwali in London, Bhakti Sagar TV, Sarita Sabrawal Official….

Special Thanks : Strategic Web Success and www.inndus.co.uk

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