Sony Television’s Boogie Woogie follow some of the rules very religiously. Please read them carefully while you prepare yourself for either your audition or for a performance at Boogie Woogie.
In a way, I feel it is great that they list all their conditions in black and white well in advance as this will give a participant a chance to prepare better and there are no surprises at later stage. Plus I do applaud them for keeping the environment clean of any obscenity.
Please see below to read some of the critical rules:
- You will have to go for your auditions with three songs. You need to give them your selection well before the contest. Boogie Woogie administration will have the final say in selecting the song which you will get to perform out of the three songs that were selected. Please note that they are very particular about the song selection and no song that you select should have any vulgarity or obscene language. Please be careful in selecting your songs.
- You are responsible to provide your own music CD that you will be performing on. So please make sure to have a backup of your CD in case the first CD has some malfunction.
- Only Solo performances are allowed at the audition and only one dance item is allowed to perform per contestant.
- Duration of your performance has to be limited to 3 minutes. Any performance that exceeds the time limit is given penalty which will reduce your chances to get selected for the next round.
- You are allowed to use free standing decorations or props such as plants, small furniture etc that can be set up in less than one minute at your own will and cost. You cannot take any decorations that will pose safety hazard at the sets. Candles or Dia’s are not allowed. The decorations that you want to take with you are your own responsibility and Boogie Woogie will not pay for it.
The most essential ingredient that you must take along with you is your “Attitude”. Attitude scores a lot – lot more then your own hard work or anything else in this world. Bad attitude – a looser big time! So what do we need to do to keep a check on our attitude? First and foremost thing is to think before you utter a single word. Keep your conversations KIND. Kindness is always appreciated. We did witness that in some of the shows didn’t we? Especially in public voting, a person with kind and humble attitude always gain. So be it! Practice kindness along with you dancing skills. 
Smile!! They say “smile” always brings back a smile. A smile has the power to heal a lot of stuff. It sure can make a judge in bad mood see your performance in a different perspective. A perfect dance but a stiff no smiling face may ruin a good performance. Now that is another matter if the dance that you are performing is a sad or angry number – then in that case you sure have to keep your smile miles away but make sure to bring your smile back as soon as you finish your performance and have to face the judges.
No Argument what so ever!! My boss at my previous job “George Brunath” who is my mentor has taught me a lot. The most important thing that he taught me was not to argue especially with your boss. In competitions, a judge is your boss. Just listen to him with a smile – don’t get into arguments even though you strongly feel that you are right. That might ruin your chances to go forward. My boss always told me there are three rules – First rule, Boss is right! Second rule – Boss is right! If you don’t agree with the first two rules then consider third rule and that is “Follow first and second rule”!! So without much ado, I would suggest that when you are pointed out your mistakes just hear them out and acknowledge by saying “You will perform better next time”
Go to have fun! Winning or loosing is not all. Keep one thing in mind that if you loose this competition or even loose out in audition, it is NOT the end of the world! There is always tomorrow. Nothing is ending today. Till the time this earth is rotating, there will be many opportunities that will keep coming your way. Go with a positive attitude but be serious in what you are doing. Give your best shot and leave the rest to God. If you make it, well and good or else you surely will make it tomorrow – don’t give up and don’t feel let down. A lot of times failures teaches us more then what a success can teach. Learn from it – Improve yourself! Thomas Alva Edison was once asked “how does he feel that he failed 99 times before he finally succeeded inventing a bulb the 100th time? To this he politely answered, “I now knows 99 ways of how not to make a bulb.” So have fun no matter what you face!
Last but not least for today’s article – Use your Sense of Humor!! I personally love and adore people who have sense of humor. Humor eases a lot of things. It makes life so much less complicated and plus people love you more because you are a happy person. If by keeping your humor in place you win few new friends or gets to be a favorite, nothing wrong in it right? It is only beneficial to you. And I believe everyone does has a good sense of humor – you just have to dig it out from within you and if you feel you don’t then please do watch lot of comedy shows or see/read cartoons in your free time. These will help you develop your taste in humor plus it will surely keep you happy. Remember, a happy and jovial contestant everybody would want to see in the next round.
A hard working jovial contestant with right attitude and sense of humor – a sure shot winner all the way!! Now all you have to do is concentrate on your dancing skills and think of innovative ways to impress your judges.
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