Manisha Dino’s night of Salsa
Last lap for India’s first Latin American dance couple to enter the Indoor Asian Games
‘India’s first Latin American Dance Couple’ Shannon Benjamin and Dr. Priti Gupta today announced their participation for The Open DanceSport Championship in Hongkong which will be their last lap leading up to the Asian Games.
The Open DanceSport Championship will be held in Hongkong on 7th July 2007. This championship is one of the two championships which are the stepping stones to enable a dancing couple to parting in the Indoor Asian Games, the other one being in Russia.
If the couple wms among the top 20 couples at the championship in Hongkong, they will for the first time represent India in the dance category at the 2nd Indoor Asian Games. The couple has already won four international dance competitions in Singapore, Malaysia, Macau and Sri Lanka stirring the audiences with their electric performances.
One of their recent successes has been at the ‘Footwork Asian championship’ held in Sri Lanka where they secured the fourth position. The Open DanceSport Championship in Hongkong is their final stepping stone to the Indoor Asian Games.
Mr. and Mrs. Amitabh Bachchan, AB Corp have committed to sponsor the duo for making it to the Asian Games.
The couple gave the media a select preview of their performance at Seijo & the Soul Dish in the presence of Manisha Koirala and Dino Morea who were there to flag off the couple for one of the most importance performances of their life.
Samba, Cha Cha Cha, Jive, Rumba and Paso Doble (Spanish Bull Fight) were the dance forms they swayed to gracefully, choreographed by India’s top most choreographer Sandip Soparrkar.
The couple has been performing over years under the training and supervision of maestro choreographer Sandip Soparrkar.
Clothes for the upcoming Championship designed by Mohak & Rohit K Verma, Groomed by actor Kavita Kapoor with stage etiquettes by model J essy Randhawa the couple is ready to face the world. Dr. Rashmi Shetty is the secret behind the couple’s radiant skin and lustrous hair and the fitness expert Shalini Bhargava keeps the couple on their toes to be fit and healthy
The evening was a truly hair raising experience as all of the Bollywood’s celebrities got together to lend their support, praises and wishes to the couple.

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