Word: bhangra
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...classical training in South Asian dance. Her piece, “Hindi Film Dance: A Bollywood Journey” is an example of the ten dance performances in the show, which cover a broad range of dances from South Asia (and the South Asian diaspora,) from the Punjabi Bhangra style, to Chutney-Soca, which reflects Indian immigration into the West Indies, to fusion between modern and traditional forms. This is the first year that Nepali dance is included under the Ghungroo umbrella, and producers are proud that the repertoire for the annual performance continues to broaden. In addition...
...Agassiz stage. Even performing in front of a beautifully-constructed dull orange set of columns and arabesque arches and on a painted stage with a central rose, the bright colors of the participants’ shimmering costumes stand out, accompanied by their incredible dexterity: at one point during the Bhangra dance a dancer lifts another by his feet, tucking his knees over his shoulders, whirling him and causing him to fly out like an amusement park ride. The musical acts share a similar intensity, such as the three-on-three drum and voice battle known as “tukda?...
London-based Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. (Maya Arulpragasam) draws on reggae and bhangra in a new globe-trekking CD, Arular, that's a world beater...
...informality of the audience did nothing to deter from the enjoyment of the montage of dance styles: tap, bharathanatyam, hip hop, bhangra, jazz, kathak, Bollywood and ballet, alone and in collaboration. Each group seemed to have its own enclave of particularly enthusiastic supporters in the audience, with UPenn’s PENNaach group greeted with the same warmth as Harvard’s Asian American Dance Troupe (AADT...
...audience was surprised but impressed by the last act of the evening, a hip hop/Bhangra fusion by the Harvard Medical School and Bhangra groups, in what was arguably the edgiest performance of the night. The Harvard Bhangra dancers laudably held their own next to the aggressively provocative medical students...