@KillinDaWelfareMCs You have to be be familiar with the medium before you can appreciate any Indian classical dance. First, and foremost, it is not interpretive dance, it is the retelling of the Ramayana. The dancer is judged how well he or she keeps in timing, hence the ankle bells, called 'gejjai' in Tamil, or 'payal' in Hindi. Some of the hand gestures (mudras) are for retelling the story, and others are for pure dance.
They're from my VHS collection recorded in the 1980s &90s. I'd think we'd not be able to see so much stuff from Brit TV if it wasn't for people like me & Youtube, of course!!!
Well, if Nick is your name then it is derived from Nicholas. Sure, there are Indians with Christian names, though most people in the world with Christian names are not Indian. So, what are you then? A white Indophile or an Indian Christian?
nothing wrong with asking, though. I like white indophiles since there aren't countless of them here in the west like there is with Sinophiles or Japanophiles. The Asian craze is largely focused on the countries with peoples who have similar eyelid shape. It would be nice if people in the west would recognize India as part of Asia, not just simply underneath it.
@hippocampus23 yea! i wish so too!!!! everyone just seems to care about pointy eye and chinese....india doesn't come under the catagory of 'asian' :( but I LOVE INDIA!!!!! quite proud of it!
wahh!!!!!
chandan314 1 year ago
I don't get it...this looks like wierd interprative dance that white people do...
KillinDaWelfareMCs 2 years ago
My friend, THIS style of dance is many centuries old &, IMO, is MUCH better than any interprative dance today.
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tripmonk0 2 years ago 5
@KillinDaWelfareMCs You have to be be familiar with the medium before you can appreciate any Indian classical dance. First, and foremost, it is not interpretive dance, it is the retelling of the Ramayana. The dancer is judged how well he or she keeps in timing, hence the ankle bells, called 'gejjai' in Tamil, or 'payal' in Hindi. Some of the hand gestures (mudras) are for retelling the story, and others are for pure dance.
dpinvogue 1 year ago
Thanks so much for posting this, I hope everyone on the planet will know of this dance and the majesty of Maharaji and Saswati's dance in time!
isfahani 3 years ago
They're from my VHS collection recorded in the 1980s &90s. I'd think we'd not be able to see so much stuff from Brit TV if it wasn't for people like me & Youtube, of course!!!
Nick
tripmonk0 3 years ago
Nick, are you a white indophile?
hippocampus23 2 years ago
Well' my little horsey friend, firstly
Am I white?
Secondly
India is my beloved & we annoy the hell out of each other as often as we can.
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tripmonk0 2 years ago
Well, if Nick is your name then it is derived from Nicholas. Sure, there are Indians with Christian names, though most people in the world with Christian names are not Indian. So, what are you then? A white Indophile or an Indian Christian?
hippocampus23 2 years ago
nothing wrong with asking, though. I like white indophiles since there aren't countless of them here in the west like there is with Sinophiles or Japanophiles. The Asian craze is largely focused on the countries with peoples who have similar eyelid shape. It would be nice if people in the west would recognize India as part of Asia, not just simply underneath it.
hippocampus23 2 years ago
I AM a kind of Indophile if you like. From England but in Varanasi, U.P., at the moment.
Nick
tripmonk0 2 years ago
Ohhhh, I see. So, you're a white British Indophile? That's lovely :-). What was your first impression when visiting India for the first time?
hippocampus23 2 years ago
Just realised who you are now.
BYEEEEE
tripmonk0 2 years ago
@hippocampus23 'white Indophile' lol... we are all humans, such traditions have no time and space, believe me!
holikarang 1 year ago
@hippocampus23 yea! i wish so too!!!! everyone just seems to care about pointy eye and chinese....india doesn't come under the catagory of 'asian' :( but I LOVE INDIA!!!!! quite proud of it!
ADMJCXNK97fan 11 months ago
Where do you get all these old videos from?
dancingnikitacompany 3 years ago
Most are from my old VHS collection recorded from English TV in the 1980s & 90s.
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tripmonk0 2 years ago