Western to Classical

Hey folks, guess its been a while since my last post! Been terribly busy. Hope your all doing fine! Anyway with this short prelude here comes the post!

The other day was the best and one of the funniest experiences ever! One of my friends who is a western dancer through and through we made him do Bharathanatyam! He knows only to dance like Prabhu Deva (western), Michael Jackson, Hrithik Roshan, Usher etc.. He is a really good dancer & totally flexible and can dance really fast! It seems when he's dancing that there is no dance that is impossible for him.

Hmmm but boy were we wrong. We taught him a set of Bharathantyam steps and asked him to do it. LOL! Here is where the fun began.

Just imagine if the skeleton in 'Jeans' was a robot and had no bit of grace and just fast movements which rather resembled a robot doing Tai Chi/Karate/Any maritial art (kind of seemed like watch out don't come near me, I'm lethal! ;-) )! Hmmm how so??? God I have no idea! It was just very hilarious.

To be extremely precise it can be described as,

• A robot going out of control with certain programmed movements on an apparently infinite loop
• The head and the body also moving along with the hand and feet movements (so basically the whole body moving when its just the feet, hands and eyes that need to move).
• The hand movements, imagine or just go to the fly swatting post of mine, check out the video link. Yep you guess it, It was pretty much the same!

I don't think I can describe it anymore. Its something everyone has to see for themselves ( a person who does mostly western dancing (all types) doing pure classical Bharathanatyam dancing)! Too much fun to watch! But I have to give credit, when that person was asked to do it again three days later, it was obvious he had been practicing. The robots movements had become more graceful & boy he had the look of utmost concentration on his face like he could achieve even the unachievable.

Moral of the story: Classical dancing is harder than it looks. You need the training and/or the natural affluency!

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