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Dance As Perceived By Me through the Years
Dance has transformed lives, changed many and revolutionized some too. India has never been behind but has always seen the highest variety of dance forms in itself. Some come into the world with it while many just get it from practice or dedication.
What has taken Names like hip hop, jazz, salsa, rock n roll, Modern art and contemporary used to be just classical or western when I was a kid? Where we have the Jhatak moves still prevalent in our own Bollywood we have not gone very far off from our base. Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi and Oddissi still stand as base for a lot of dance forms like Sanskrit stands headmaster for all the languages.
As a kid I might have learnt classical and then got this strange inclination towards western just because the world was moving towards it. Have feet, Will Dance said the SDIPA and I followed.
Now just a Baraat' dancer that I might be left with still would love to get back on stage with some practice someday. An art can never die and this I believe is very true. That very line makes me go back to putting on my dance shoes (at least in my dreams!).
Having an art form at stake to show off is what a Traditional Indian Middle class family wants its son to show off at a public meeting many a times, and somewhere my dance classes fit in there. What looks easy trust me aint very easy all teh time and its what the oldies say that is true, practice makes a man perfect.
