I was pleasantly surprised to watch Kruthi perform a pure classical piece, it was wonderful, very well done and executed, as it should.
Thanks to DID for giving this cultural form a stage and the mentors for giving a standing ovation.
Way to go Kruthi!!! for getting the performance of the day award.It means much for all students who spend time and effort to learn this art form yet, feel inferior to someone who performs a bollywood/contemporary and actually hesitate to share a platform with them because classical dances are under-appreciated and yes, sometimes 'booed' . Luckily, here in the US we have a wonderful stage for classical dance and the Indian culture lives on.................
I had commented on this last month and it is fair that I acknowledge the effort made by the DID team/mentors in trying to give the global audience a broad range of Indian dances with that touch of modernity.
I hope that everyone here agrees.
***-- Terence if u'r reading this, it requires tons of guts to veer away from one's own comfort zone and encourage your student to bring classical dance into the limelight. It was nice that u gave due credit to the gurus who choreographed the piece.
Originally posted by: SunBright
For all that DID is about - movers and shakers...It is sad that there are no takers for Indian classical music - take a look at how many folk/classical dances were choreographed vs the 'bolly-holly' (made up word - u get the point).
Then again you have a judge who claims to be a classical expert and whenever she speaks I'm sure the likes of Birju Maharaj, Mallika Sarabai, Adyar Lakshman must cringe in their seats ...?It would be nice for a judge who claims to be pro-classical and sheds tears for its cause toactually do a formal piece of classical dance with proper mudras and posture. (no re-mix pls)That being said about how classical dance is being pushed into oblivion, here are my thoughts:
While we here in the US try to retain our cultural dance/music identity, it is considered non-classy back in India - isn't it sad?
Wouldn't it be worthwhile to give classical dance a stage it deserves- I know there's TRP and all that?
Why not have a mandatory classical round - loads of films have some neat classicals and why not invite the 'forgotten' rather 'anonymous' exponents of dance alongside a bollywood celebrity. I would get to know some of these dance gurus too...
Anupamaa
