After Zee TV announced the audition dates of “Dance India Dance Season 3,” dance academies across the country, run by show judges Terence Lewis, Geeta Kapoor and Remo D’Souza, saw a sudden upsurge in enrollments for a crash course in Hip-Hop, Salsa, Bollywood and Ballroom dancing. 

Lewis said, “One day, I had a chat with the youngsters who had come to enroll themselves in my dance academy in Mumbai and found out that 99 percent wanted to give ‘DID 3’ a shot. I had to counsel them that one month’s crash course will not do them any good. If they really want to take up dance as a career option, then they should wait till they have achieved excellence and then try their luck on national television.”

Said Geeta Kapoor, “Dancing is not just about learning the steps; it’s all about rhythm, synchronization and passion, which cannot be mastered in haste.”

However, though Remo shares the others’ views, he also feels that everybody interested should be allowed to come for the auditions and experience the frenzy — “and then decide for themselves where they stand in the competitive world.” 

Auditions were held last month in Delhi, Raipur, Kolkata, Indore, Patna, Lucknow, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Guwahati, Bhubaneshwar, Hyderabad, Dehradun, Imphal, Rajkot, Vadodara, Kolhapur, Bengaluru and Mumbai.