| Abhay Deol and Minissha Lamba learn the TANGO!
Not many are aware that Abhay Deol and Minissha Lamba went through special tango training for Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. The two, who play Aspi and Zara in the film, have done an intense tango in the track, "Pyaar Ki Ek Kahani Suno", composed by Vishal-Shekhar.
Even though the song was shot in Mumbai, we are told that choreographers Danny, Savio and Kunjan were specially flown down to Goa to make Abhay and Minissha rehearse every day after their grueling shooting schedule. After much fighting and heartburn, the song got done finally, and the results are for all to see!
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. is a Farhan Akhtar-Ritesh Sidhwani production and releases on the 23rd of February. Studio 18 is marketing and distributing it internationally. .
Diversity in dance
Modern dance pioneer Martha Graham once said, "Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery." The Cal Poly Orchesis Dance Companys 37th annual show, "Dancing on the Edge," promises to be a voyage of discovery to test the boundaries of the art. Orchesis, named for the Greek term "to dance," is Cal Polys oldest performance dance company. Here, students and faculty come together to share their love of dance with each other and with members of the community. "This year the concert addresses ideas about the edges of dance," said Orchesis director Maria Junco. "Some works challenge physical boundaries of the art form. For example, faculty member Diana Stanton has choreographed an amazing work where the entire set is composed of pipes and beams that the dancers move across and around and under.
China's Space-Attack Test
After several attempts, the People's Republic of China has successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon. The kinetic-energy "kill vehicle" destroyed its target - one of Beijing's own aging weather satellites - orbiting over 500 miles above Earth. This is bad news. For starters, it calls into question China's mantra that its unprecedented military buildup is for self-defense, that its rise to world power will be peaceful. It's a threat to no one - and it will only use space for peaceful purposes. Not surprisingly, after the Jan. 11 test was confirmed late last week, the United States, Japan, Britain, Canada and Australia all condemned the Chinese anti-satellite (ASAT) missile launch. A White House National Security Council spokesman said last Thursday: "The U.S. believes China's development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of cooperation that both countries aspire to in the civil space arena." So why is the Chinese KT-2 "satellite-killer" launch - the first ASAT test since America and the Soviet Union conducted tests in the 1980s - causing so much "final frontier" heartburn? Well, for a lot of good reasons - at least from an American perspective: * The missile test, launched from the Xichang Space Center in central China, was unannounced and appeared to have taken place without the prior consultation of other countries with space-based assets, such as the United States.
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