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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: LadyDabangg

it is supposed to!

but i don't think in DWTS,the judges are worshiped,allowed to be bias,and there is unnecessary dramas🥱

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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: Baki

then you should watch tamil dance reality shows, they only take few western dance style, rest of the rounds will be focus on indian dance styles, like old movies classic dance style, folk etc.

Thanks for the suggestion.😊
would love to follow some!
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Posted: 11 years ago
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The Indian audience does not appreciate them!
I say this because I watch television whenever I visit India and in one instance I was at a doctor's office where the waiting area had Dance India Dance on. A contestant was giving a performance on Kathak and someone to my right said, "She should try doing hip-hop or salsa..."

I mean rarely do we see contestants doing classical dancing in the first place and from what I remember this was the first classical solo of that season.

Anyhow, like a lot of people mentioned...this is about Indians trying to fit in with the western culture. Trying to learn the western culture and being aware of it is a great thing but that does not mean we completely cut off our roots. One of our Universities (and I live out of India) has courses such as bollywood, Indian history and culture, etc.

So for me, it's more because of the mentality that people have developed over the years about our culture. Just like how there is craziness on going to America, Canada, Australia these days.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Someone here pointed out how it is difficult for participants to pick up indian styles at such short time and I fully agree. 3 day is not even enough to pick up the hapf sitting stances employed in forms like odissi, bn, mohiniyattam.
But I would like to point out that, choreographers themselves don't know indian classical is not completely true. Barring a few, most of them have good classical dancing background or start point. So its mostly time and motivation constraints for classical and the wish to so something to catch audience eye that classicals r so ignored.
So here it goes, the choreographers on top of my head with classical knowledge.
Punit: none
Kruti: visharad in bharatnatyam kuchipudi
Deepak: yakshagana
Savio folks
Tushar: chhau all the forms bits of bharatnatyam and kathakali
Mohina, suchi kathak
Sneha: bits of kathak training
Nishant: kathak and bharatnatyam,
Shampa: kathak exponent, daughter of gopikishen, also knows bharatnatyam
Vaishnavi: bharatnatyam


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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: LeadNitrate

Kruti: visharad in bharatnatyam kuchipudi
Deepak: yakshagana
Savio folks
Tushar: chhau all the forms bits of bharatnatyam and kathakali
Mohina, suchi kathak
Sneha: bits of kathak training
Nishant: kathak and bharatnatyam,
Shampa: kathak exponent, daughter of gopikishen, also knows bharatnatyam
Vaishnavi: bharatnatyam


That's enlightening! Good to know about their specializations! 😊
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: -Inferno-

The Indian audience does not appreciate them!

I say this because I watch television whenever I visit India and in one instance I was at a doctor's office where the waiting area had Dance India Dance on. A contestant was giving a performance on Kathak and someone to my right said, "She should try doing hip-hop or salsa..."

I mean rarely do we see contestants doing classical dancing in the first place and from what I remember this was the first classical solo of that season.

Anyhow, like a lot of people mentioned...this is about Indians trying to fit in with the western culture. Trying to learn the western culture and being aware of it is a great thing but that does not mean we completely cut off our roots. One of our Universities (and I live out of India) has courses such as bollywood, Indian history and culture, etc.

So for me, it's more because of the mentality that people have developed over the years about our culture. Just like how there is craziness on going to America, Canada, Australia these days.

That's sad!
There's no harm in adapting foreign dance forms but neglecting our own literature is sad!
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Its not like Indian audience appreciate proper wetern styles either
Sophie's act, for example, was true blue ballroom best in the entire event, but next week will tell if audience likes her or the dramatic lift, OTT dance moves more
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Posted: 11 years ago
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^^ Anything with glitter and dramatic presentation impresses us, Indians! So I highly doubt that Sophie would be even safe or not! But Marks would compensate!
I do agree that She gave one of best performances!
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Originally posted by: Nxt_rockstar

That's enlightening! Good to know about their specializations! 😊


Thanks you @leadnitrate Wonderful to know that they have classical backgrounds but in the classical circuits, haven't heard their expertise. They also may not be practicing any of the pure forms due to career demands. They are definitely graceful dancers and choreographers. Mostly it is the audience and their acceptance of popular vs traditional. I see a lot of pure western dance stage shows, hardly few indians show up or appreciate the styles but the hodge lodge styles of Indian stage shows always get the loudest claps and Paisa wasool siti maroes. First time watching JDJ but regular dwts . dwts works on technique and clean execution, based on what I hv seen in last two episode lots of movie promos entertainment in jdj, commentary wise not much on technique, I think it follows a different British dance reality show to some extent too.
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