Honey’s Dance Academy

Posted January 22, 2010 by admin in Blog | No comments yet

Honey's Dance Academy

About Honey’s Dance Academy

Honey’s Dance Academy is the leading (and largest) British Asian dance academy and has been hailed by the BBC as ‘The 21^st Century Fame School’. Over the past 10 years, Honey Kalaria and her academy have given over half a million participants the opportunity to learn about Bollywood through dance classes, training programmes and workshops. Honey’s Dance Academy provides the highest level of professional Bollywood dance training to students of all ages, across 15 dance schools located in Greater London, with plans to expand nationally. Today, Honey’s Dance Academy boasts 1,800 students.  The world’s first Bollywood dance syllabus, devised by Honey herself, is available exclusively at Honey’s Dance Academy allowing students to take accredited professional Bollywood dance exams with examiners from UKA – United Kingdom Alliance of Professional Teachers of Dancing and International Dance Teachers Association. Students also have the opportunity to be trained to the highest standard to gain professional accredited Bollywood qualifications 

Training at Honeys Dance Academy    

Honeys Dance Academy is Bollywood Dance Championships’ official training sponsor to ensure the participants receive highest level of training in Bollywood, and to enhance and develop their skills. This will enable participants to receive the best possible chance to compete. A HDA dance term comprises of a 12-week course of one hour each. Dance routines are taught to popular bollywood and bhangra tracks, 

and students train once a week for an hour. At Honey’s Dance  Academy (HDA) students are encouraged to participate in Bollywood films, pop videos, shows, modeling assignments, music concerts and other entertainment projects. Students have enjoyed taking part in Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum, Mahobatein, Harry Potter, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife, Top of the Pops, Blue Peter and worked with high profile artists such as Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Gareth Gates, Beyonce to name a few

Bollywood Stage School (At Honey’s Dance Academy)           

The HDA Bollywood Stage School is a service offered to HDA students wishing to take part in regular shows and who have reached a particular level of proficiency. This additional training is offered free of  charge, where students get a chance to develop their dance technique, stage presence, interview technique, choreography skills and get involved in projects to help build their CV, ready for professional work.  The Academy looks for dedication, a professional attitude, passion for dance and a desire to bring joy to others through art and culture. Selection is by invitation only and auditions are held in HDA classes every 3 months to select students who reach a particular standard through ongoing training or through their own talent and effort.

Diva Entertainments Agency   

Diva Entertainments Agency offers HDA students or talented artists professional paid  work -  babies, children, teenagers, adults and OAP’s are given opportunities to take part in shows, musicals, events, commercials, television and films. You can send in professional photos (1 full length and 1 portrait) to Diva Entertainments. Visit www.divaentertainments.com for further information and how to apply. At the Bollywood factor auditions entrants may be put forward for professional work immediately, or invited to attend an audition for roles currently available. HDA will train artists who wish to develop their skills, build their CV through The Bollywood Stage School and later the agency will put them forward for professional work.

About Honey Kalaria:

Honey Kalaria, a dancer, choreographer and Bollywood specialist, has been involved in Bombay Dreams, Merchants of Bollywood and Bride and Prejudice, with TV appearances on Bollywood Star, Ruby Wax, This Morning, Top of the Pops, Bump and Grind, Blue Peter, Jamie Oliver and MTV’s Bust a Move. She has worked alongside Gareth Gates, Beyonce, Craig David, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai. An award winning actress, choreographer and one of the top 3 Asian business women in the UK, with 18 Bollywood schools, an Honorary Doctorate of Arts and a No 1 Bollywood Workout video. Recently Honey choreographed for Gurinder Chada’s latest film “It’s A Wonderful Afterlife”, BBC Bollywood Proms at The Royal Albert Hall, and is now a Guinness Book of World Record holder.

Awards and Accolades:

• Nominated as one of the top 3 Asian business women in the UK
• Received Honorary Doctorate of Arts from University of East London
• Presented with The Best Bollywood International Award for role in Bollywood film – Indian babu directed by Lawrence D’Souza
• Received special award for contribution to Women in Society from Tessa Jowell
• Nominated as one of the top 3 Asian personalities in the UK in the Media and Culture category for Asian Voice Awards
• Received an award for her contribution in supporting the community and promoting Indian Performing Arts by the Redbridge Cultural Association
• Broke Guinness Book of World Records in 2009 by getting the largest number of studio audience members to perform to a bollywood dance routine
• Finalist for The Woman of the Year Award category in 2009 for The Asian Achievement Awards

Bollywood Dance Impressario, Honey Kalaria, to appear on primetime TV Show, ‘So You Think You Can Dance’

Posted January 22, 2010 by admin in Blog | 1 comment

Honey Kalaria

Honey Kalaria,

dance impressario and Founder of UK’s top Bollywood dance and stage school, Honey’s Dance Academy, is to appear on the hit BBC primetime show, ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ on Saturday 23^rd January.

For the forthcoming show, Honey has taught a Bollywood routine to five of the best female dancers in the UK. Audiences will be able to see the dancers’ journey from being trained in the art form to finally performing it. Honey worked closely with show producer Gareth Davies and his team to prepare a Bollywood routine for the group to perform in front of the judging panel and the studio audience.

Comments Honey,  “It has been a great experience as I love being creative and artistic, and working with a fantastic team at the BBC has made it even more fun – from researchers to stylists right through to rehearsal coordinators and camera men. All the dancers I worked with were extremely friendly, pleasant and worked hard to pick up the Bollywood style. You will just have to wait and watch to see how they perform!”

The best of the best choreographers from the industry have been invited to choreograph various dance routines for ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ so that the audience can enjoy a range of dance styles which will be performed by the ten shortlisted dancers.

Bollywood Dance Queen and entertainment impresario Honey Kalaria founded Honey’s Dance Academy (HDA) in 1991. Since its inception, the famed dance academy has grown to over 13 London Studios and has cast its dance students in major film, TV and stage roles in the likes of Harry Potter, BBC Proms, Jamie Oliver’s Oliver Twist, Bombay Dreams and blockbuster Bollywood movies such as Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham.

Open to all skill levels, Honey’s Dance Academy has taken novice dancers and trained them to perform on the most glamorous of stage and film sets. With Bollywood ever growing in popularity and now reaching global audiences, the appeal to learn and perform in the Bollywood arts has attracted students from all cultural backgrounds – something HDA strongly encourages.

Catch Honey Kalaria on ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ on Saturday 23^rd January, BBC1, 7.00pm