Dancing is a fantastic form of exercise because it gets your whole body moving. In addition, the warm-up and cool-down routines help to tone your figure. Dance also helps you to become more flexible. When you do a warm-up routine you should try to flex and extend your muscles as far as you can because this will help you to become more supple.

Dance also builds muscles and strengthens your arms and legs. This is because you are forcing the muscles to resist against your own body weight. If you take up jazz or ballet, you will become very strong because you are required to jump and leap high into the air.

Happy New Year

Muqabla: NNR Remix returns to University of Delaware campus in Newark, DE on Saturday Feb 25th, 2012.

Pre-Sale tickets are available through participating teams Facebook page.

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Royalty competition on February 11, 2012. Raas Royalty is a national Indian dance competition that brings some of the best raas teams in the country to Indiana University. This year’s lineup includes: Boston University, University of Illinois – Chicago, University of Florida, University of Michigan, Saint Louis University, New York University, Purdue University, and University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. Indiana University’s own HoosierRaas will also be performing. The show is completely free, but all proceeds benefit Timmy Global Health. The show will take place in the Indiana University Auditorium at 7:00PM with doors opening at 6:30. The evening promises to be a fun, cultural experience for the whole family! We hope to see you February 11 for a great night of FREE entertainment!

The Raas Royalty Roundtable was founded in the spring of 2009 with the mission of spreading culture, community, and philanthropy through inter-collegiate competition. Members of the Roundtable are diverse in their areas of expertise and unwavering in their commitment to uphold the mission of the Raas Royalty. Their shared passion brought them together, and dedication to the message fuels their progress. Raas Royalty has been chosen as a top tier national competition and has received one of the ten bids to Raas Nationals in Dallas, Texas. Bids were given according to mission, venue, commitment, and overall organization.

The overall goal of Raas Royalty is to spread Indian culture to Indiana University, Bloomington and colleges across the country. Those around the country will have a chance to witness this beautiful form of Indian dance through this competitive dance event. This event is the third time a raas exclusive competition will be held on the Indiana University campus, and the audience has the unique opportunity to see an event of this caliber for free. Given the diversity on and off campus, this event will help build upon the ongoing celebration of culture and community in Bloomington.

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DEADLINES & DATES
Late Registration – February 12th, 2012 – $150 Registration Fee
Final Submission – February 26th, 2012 – Video due
Broadcast – March 11th, 2012 – Online

No Auditions, EVERY team is accepted to open the market up and increase the challenge! So just Register!

Open to independent, collegiate, and collaborations of teams. All participants must be 18+ years of age. We accept teams from any country!

$1000 to the winner of each category! Don’t miss this opportunity to win $1000 without a single travel expense! You can’t get a better deal than that.

Website coming soon! Email us at BWS@desidanceteams.com for more information. Register at our website.

Until then, check out some of last year’s performances and some great examples of Bollywood Smash videos;

Delaware Kamaal – 2011 Winners
Broad Street Baadshahz – 2011 Runner Up
Bollywood America Promo
Chammak Challo by Berkeley Azaad and Zahanat

Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.

- Google

Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.

- Google

But do you also know that this will change the dance scene completely. Dance teams will no longer be able to upload videos of their amazing performances due to strict copyright infringements. This would also limit or even shut down forums like DesiDanceTeams.com as well as event websites. Live streaming of events would be shut down. Our dance community would be censored. DON’T LET THEM DESTROY OUR DANCE COMMUNITY.

The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late.

Click here to sign the petition at Google.