Alexandra even takes Indian dance classes and the family lives next door to a Hindu temple.
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"And now many of them are going to come to the eisteddfod to attend some workshops I am holding into Indian dance, " she said.
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Mr Cameron said earlier this week schools often saw the two-hour target as a maximum and told the BBC that Indian dance was being counted as physical education.
Through artistic performance involving music, sculpture and dance, supported by pyrotechnics, the audience was invited to a worldwide voyage to India with an Indian dance workshop and to Europe with masterfully interpretations of Verdi, Rossini and Mozart, played by a duet Ali and Stephanie Balthazard Lachaise.
Known mostly for his accomplishment as a Kathak (Indian classical dance) performer, Birju Maharaj will render thumris composed by his grandfather, Bindadin Maharaj of the Lucknow Gharana.
Zoobin says that his form of Bollywood dancing is a "fusion of Indian classical dancing with Western dance moves".
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Jain Irrigation, an Indian maker of irrigation systems, uses dance and song to explain the benefits of drip irrigation to farmers who can't read.
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The only problem was the enthusiastic Indian fans who broke the barricades so they could dance next to the stage.
The Mumbai premiere had all the makings of a scene from a Bollywood blockbuster: Musicians banged on traditional Indian drums as the cast and crew broke into dance on the red carpet in recognition of the 10 Academy Award nominations the film received Thursday.
Although not everyone here is Indian, arms sway in the air in a Bollywood-style dance motion.
As a former national break dance champion, he is the Darren Gough of the Indian team.
Mr. Jain says he was moved by both the music of Indian-born percussionist Trilok Gurtu and the Indian fusion projects of British guitarist John McLaughlin, but the London-based electronic dance music of artists like Talvin Singh and the Asian Dub Foundation exerted the greatest influence on him.
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The huge cast of Midnight's Children includes Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Seema Biswas, Rahul Bose, Charles Dance, Shriya Saran and Shahana Goswami, besides newcomer Satya Bhabha as Saleem Sinai and southern Indian star Siddharth as Shiva.
Born to Indian parents and raised in Los Angeles, she moved to even more culturally diverse New York to share her dance workout, she says.
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