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New Chak Dhoom Dhoom Dance 2010 Win Sparsh Shrivastav: Thirteen super entertaining weeks, sixteen young dancing stars, four outstanding finalists and one grand finale, Rin presents Chak Dhoom Dhoom - Chhote Dancers ki Badi Jung came to an end with 11-year old, Sparsh Srivastav from Agra emerging as the winner. With that announcement the finale boomed with thrill, the stage exploded with pyros and an overwhelmed Sparsh screamed while his mom screamed louder! Bollywood Superstar, Akshay Kumar presented the trophy to the Junior Dance Champ as the audience cheered his terrific freestyle performance on ‘Aaj Fathe Chak Len De.

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The Pussycat Doll  is now the "Dancing With the Stars" champ. Nicole Scherzinger and partner Derek Hough dominated throughout the 10th season of the hit ABC show and bested Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek to win the "Dancing" crown Tuesday night. "I feel like I just won a Grammy," she said after the show. "A dancing Grammy!"

Scherzinger performed a high-energy jive as her final dance that earned a perfect score of 30 and inspired head judge Len Goodman to say, "There can only be one winner of 'Dancing With the Stars.' It should be you."Lysacek's quickstep also earned the judges' praise, but just 28 points. "It's been such a blast," the champion figure skater said. "We are totally satisfied with everything we gave. We're so proud of Nicole and Derek. They deserve it. ... They inspired all the other couples in the competition.

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Los Angeles: Erin Andrews Dancing with the Stars 2010 Lineup & Cast List: Erin will make the show more popular. Erin Andrews’ presence on Dancing with the Stars will give it acceptability even among the people who don’t really love watching Dance moves. And by the way there is a big audience out there who don’t like shaking a leg on television.

But she being a star sports presenter has a lot of fan following among sports enthusiasts.On ESPN Sports she is among the most famous faces and this will bring to the Dancing with the Stars an absolutely new audience who in the otherwise case may like to see how their sportscaster performs.

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'So You Think You Can Dance' winner Charlie Bruce has said that she would love to land a West End role.
According to The Sun, the 19-year-old, who the £100,000 prize on the talent show on Saturday night, said that she also loves singing. Bruce said: "I've been doing it since I was ten and it's something I really want to do professionally.""I'd love to be like Mariah Carey - she's my idol."

"I hope being on 'So You Think You Can Dance' will help me achieve my goal.""I haven't spoken to my agent yet but I really want an offer from a West End musical.""I've always wanted to play Roxie in 'Chicago' - that way I can show off my voice as well as dance."

Whether on ballet pointe or in skates, 12-year-old Nancy Gallacher gracefully commands the audience’s attention whenever she enters the stage. This December the petite blonde will perform in the International Ballet Theatre’s showing of “The Nutcracker,” dubbed the ‘Eastside Nutcracker’ to differentiate it from Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Seattle show.

Gallacher will combine her love of skating with her passion for dancing at the production, but it took her many years to reach this level of performance. Her mother, Alex Gallacher, enrolled her in dance classes at age three, and she’s been on the go ever since. When in England, she studied with the Royal Ballet School and she started at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School at age five following her family’s move to Snoqualmie Ridge. After much practice, Gallacher now has three McCaw Hall performances of “The Nutcracker” under her belt.

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Chelsea Perry of Walpole is performing in Boston Ballet’s 2009 production of “The Nutcracker” at the Boston Opera House, running now through Dec. 27, in the role of Party Girl. Perry has been a student at Boston Ballet School for eight years.

Perry joins more than 250 other young dancers from around New England. Four different casts will take on the roles of toy soldiers, angels, polichinelles, dolls, baby mice and party children during Boston Ballet’s 34 performances of “The Nutcracker.

Michael Irvin is eluding elimination on 'Dancing With the Stars' almost as deftly as he did NFL cornerbacks, although the odds are long against him making it to the 'end zone' on ABC's hit dancing competition. The former Dallas Cowboys star wide receiver survived the first double-elimination show of the season Tuesday night, as he and professional partner Anna Demidova edged snowboarder Louie Vito and partner Chelsie Hightower in the season's first dance-off.

Earlier in the evening, actress Melissa Joan Hart ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch," "Clarissa Explains It All") was eliminated outright with partner Mark Ballas, finishing last among the nine remaining couples when viewer votes were added to judges' scores. "That's the game," Hart said. "It's tough. I was hoping to make it one more week."

As the next two lowest-scoring couples, Irvin and Demidova faced Vito and Hightower in the dance-off, each having 30 seconds to perform a new routine for the judges. Both couples went for energy: Irvin and Demidova showed off Irvin's outsized personality in the samba, while Vito and Hightower relied on the quick movements of the jive.

The elimination was a tough one for the judges, who made their choice by a split decision. Bruno Tonioli revealed his vote first, choosing Vito and Hightower, but after Len Goodman cast his vote for Irvin and Demidova, Carrie-Ann Inaba chose to keep the gridiron star and his partner alive for one more week.

"This is a lot harder than it looks," Vito said after his elimination. "Everyday I got out there and danced, I was proud of myself just for getting out there."

Next week's show is another double-elimination, which means that Irvin and Demidova would have to beat out at least two other couples to survive, and while Kelly Osbourne and Louis van Amstel may be within striking distance (their Monday score was closest to the bottom group), the other five remaining couples all scored significantly higher (although singer Aaron Carter and partner Karina Smirnoff were in the bottom two twice in the last three weeks).

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Dancing with the Stars" competitors were jumping to the jitterbug and gliding to the graceful waltz on Monday night's competition show -- and each of the couples also took to the dance floor for a competition mambo! Click here to see the season nine "Dancing with the Stars" scoreboard. 

Singer Mya and Dmitry Chaplin boogied to the jitterbug. Head judge Len Goodman took them to task saying, "The last refuge of the untalented is gimmicks and props. You are such a good dancer, it was unnecessary to spend 20 seconds polishing my desk. What you did, you did well. I just wanted more of it." Bruno Tonioli joked, "Cleanliness is next to godliness. What you did was spot on. Your timing was incredible. You were so much in sync." Carrie Ann Inaba agreed with Len, saying, "The jitterbug is where you go wild and crazy. It was under what I expect from you." Mya and Dmitry scored 24 out of 30 points.

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She may have the dancing skills of a ‘bush kangaroo’ but Jo Wood is insisting she has never worked harder than for her routines on Strictly Come Dancing. The mother-of-three admitted that her rigorous regime to get performances up to scratch is ‘tougher’ than child birth.

The 54-year-old said: ‘It’s by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Even childbirth was easier – at least my children arrived quickly!'She confessed dance partner Brendan Cole is a hard taskmaster and that the gruelling six hours of training each day often left her in tears. ‘Brendan does work me hard. Sometimes I wonder if he’s thinking: "Oh my God, this woman is a joke.

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Strictly speaking when it comes to dancing there's one hard and fast rule... men lead and women follow. But when your dance partner is bigger than you there is another solution - to switch roles. That's exactly what 5ft 6in Strictly Come Dancing star Vincent Simone has done with his curvy dance partner Natalie Cassidy.

"I did a little drop in the cha cha cha," Vincent tells me as we meet ahead of last night's show. "Normally it's a move the man does but I reversed it so that Natalie dropped me instead. "She's very strong. I'm a good dancer because I'm toned so I can be quick and fast but I don't have very big muscles.

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