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henrywilliams58

28-10-2014

Originally Posted by kaycee:
“ I love watching Bhangra when it is done properly. Even if they were to use it as a pro dance, the pros only get a couple of hours a week to learn the pro routine, impossible to learn a completely new style and do it justice in that time, so I hope it is only a rumour.

Or maybe they could get a group of real Bhangra dancers in as the results show entertainment - be more interesting than washed-up has-been singers!!!!”

I am not keen on authentic Bhangra at all. Very noisy with a bunch of blokes jumping up and down an singing "Hey, Hey, Hey ... "

Slicked up Bhangra with women involved is much nicer.

henrywilliams58

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by ruby-tuesday:
“many thanks for this, I love this type of music and dancing and have done a course of "Bollywood" dancing, very energetic and much harder than it looks, thanks also for the Zozo and Sangere clips, I hadn't heard of them before but what great rhythm they have

..”

Originally Posted by anothermi:
“Thanks for the link HW. That was so much fun to watch. I get the feeling that doing batucadas would almost be boring for those kids - too slow. ”

It reminded me of

Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmf9ZJ_Yn0A

An Thropologist

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by henrywilliams58:
“Bollywood is Mumbai produced slick musical film style music. All popular songs come from Bollywood films.

http://youtu.be/tRAPPUEFa4k?t=23s

Bhangra is Punjabi (Sikh) folk dancing - mainly (only?) males and drummer dominant music.

http://youtu.be/AY73yUSYtqo?t=1m1s

I suspect we will see something like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD-LFksC1Nc

Anton will be the one to watch.”

I thought Bollywood was more akin to the Busby Berkley Hollywood Style (ensemble numbers) than to partner dancing?

henrywilliams58

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by An Thropologist:
“I thought Bollywood was more akin to the Busby Berkley Hollywood Style (ensemble numbers) than to partner dancing?”

Yes it is. Usually with a hit song. They are song and dance numbers often set in the Himalayas or Goan beaches.

Partner dancing (i.e. Salsa) is booming in Bangalore apparently. Fondling is widespread unfortunately.

An Thropologist

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by henrywilliams58:
“Yes it is. Usually with a hit song. They are song and dance numbers often set in the Himalayas or Goan beaches.

Partner dancing (i.e. Salsa) is booming in Bangalore apparently. Fondling is widespread unfortunately.”

Bangalore is welcome to it - fondling that is. Any unsolicited fondling from anyone I dance with gets very swiftly dealt with.

OldShep56

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by henrywilliams58:
“I am not keen on authentic Bhangra at all. Very noisy with a bunch of blokes jumping up and down an singing "Hey, Hey, Hey ... "

Slicked up Bhangra with women involved is much nicer.”

Have you ever seen the scene from 'Bride and Prejudice' ..... it is the early stage of a wedding party where the men 'attract' the women. I, personally, think the whole scene is fantastic and the dancing wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-yNQDmxvDw

Also includes the most beautiful girl in the world lol Aishwarya Rai ....... a former Miss India and Miss World

henrywilliams58

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by OldShep56:
“Have you ever seen the scene from 'Bride and Prejudice' ..... it is the early stage of a wedding party where the men 'attract' the women. I, personally, think the whole scene is fantastic and the dancing wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-yNQDmxvDw

Also includes the most beautiful girl in the world lol Aishwarya Rai ....... a former Miss India and Miss World”

Yes that's good stuff. But that is Bollywood Bhangra and far from the authentic Bhangra at the beginning of that link which is blokes jumping up and down chanting "Hey, Hey" at 4 sec. Notice they cut away to the girls after just a fews secs. By 32 secs it turns into Bollywood Bhangra. The filmmakers know that the real stuff does not make good viewing.

http://youtu.be/3-yNQDmxvDw?t=4s

white tigress

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by janetmw:
“At the beginning of October I had a weeks holiday in France and managed to see an episode of 'Dance avec les Stars'. Thankfully a fluency in French was not needed, but the format was somewhat familiar, even down to the theme music, set and judges line-up!

It may have been a 'special' week, but the dances were very different. From memory and post red wine haze there was Bollywood, Flamenco, Bolero ( similar to Rhumba), African Jazz (think Lion King), Country Style (think barn/line dance) and Classic Dance ( think ballet, pas-des-deux and tights ). The other main difference was the scoring. The judges gave two sets of marks foe technical merit and artistic interpretation.

Must look out for it again next time we are sur le continent! There was even a version of Bake Off.

Janet”

Agree French telly is appalling, but not seen this one yet. Would enjoy a few of the above categories--esp Bollywood, Flamenco and African jazz. Even wished Apache would make an appearance [though our pros brutally shoving lesser talented clebs across the floor like mops comes pretty close]. French version of 'Weakest Link' was the pits.

white tigress

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by kaycee:
“I love watching Bhangra when it is done properly. Even if they were to use it as a pro dance, the pros only get a couple of hours a week to learn the pro routine, impossible to learn a completely new style and do it justice in that time, so I hope it is only a rumour.

Or maybe they could get a group of real Bhangra dancers in as the results show entertainment - be more interesting than washed-up has-been singers!!!!”

Wow--GREAT idea!! Instead of clapped out singers trying to flog albums, they should feature all sorts of Dance Companies: eg--Bangra, Matthew Bourne, Cubano, Irish, E european, Greek, Flamenco, etc giving a taster of their styles. Brilliant!!

henrywilliams58

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by white tigress:
“Wow--GREAT idea!! Instead of clapped out singers trying to flog albums, they should feature all sorts of Dance Companies: eg--Bangra, Matthew Bourne, Cubano, Irish, E european, Greek, Flamenco, etc giving a taster of their styles. Brilliant!!”

Except that the BBC producers believe that viewers are not interested in dance. The 10 minutes (excluding faffin abaht) per 2 hour programme is even too much for them do they have introduced The Whirling Dervish on Acid Cameraman to take our minds and eyes off the dancing.

ruby-tuesday

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by henrywilliams58:
“It reminded me of

Paul Simon - Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmf9ZJ_Yn0A”

I've got the excellent Graceland CD, but had never seen this video, so thank you

I have several Bollywood DVD's and the song and dance numbers often go on for at least eight minutes which is very impressive .. BIB ... but I believe that kissing isn't allowed

she's married to Abishek Bachchan isn't she, I have this DVD ... the dancing is great and the costumes are beautiful

henrywilliams58

29-10-2014

Originally Posted by ruby-tuesday:
“I've got the excellent Graceland CD, but had never seen this video, so thank you

I have several Bollywood DVD's and the song and dance numbers often go on for at least eight minutes which is very impressive .. BIB ... but I believe that kissing isn't allowed
”

The fondling I referred to is in real life salsa clubs (not to mention trains and buses). Yes no kissing on films but plenty of graphic sex in temples. ...

Google for "Eve teasing"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_teasing

martyboy

29-10-2014

This dance style has been featured several times on Dancing With The Stars.

Because the regular pro dancers are not familiar with the style, a specialist is used for training.

Good example, from a previous season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ah6qyeHGa0

I believe that this was just a couple of weeks ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUPk3W7hpA4

henrywilliams58

30-10-2014

I dislike synchronised smiling (I mean swimming) but these Chinese gymnast / dancer blokes are great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCyEr4jRHRY

Amazing musicality and timing. And no Whirling Dervish Cameraman on Acid videoing it. I didn't get bored watching it as the BBC might imagine.

ruby-tuesday

30-10-2014

Originally Posted by henrywilliams58:
“The fondling I referred to is in real life salsa clubs (not to mention trains and buses). Yes no kissing on films but plenty of graphic sex in temples. ...

Google for "Eve teasing"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_teasing”

thank you, that was interesting, it's amazing what you learn on the Strictly forum

by the way, has anyone heard of a form of "dancercise" called Just Jhoom ... meaning Just Dance ... it's "inspired by the glitz and glamour of Bollywood" and uses Indian dance moves and Bollywood music ... I've done a short course of this and have just bought the DVD so that I can practise at home

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