Hundreds of dance shows spill out of Indian TV screens as the “dance masters” and judges—usually out-of-work heroes and heroines—wax effusive. First question: does any show come close to this? Second question: are Indian bodies differently engineered for such athleticism and acrobatics? Third question: does a dictatorship produce better dancers than a democracy?
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This is acrobatics not dance. Dance is not just about just body movements it is about emotions – navarasas et all. this acrobatic rasa of wonderment is just one dimension.
amazing!! no wonder these people are called to perform at indian events too!!
Wow what a perfection!
seen the samething @ IMA , D’Dun in 1970
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pg3fvanDDc
Above link is from the winning team of Britains got talent..Comparing the two the chinese clearly score when it comes to flexibility, but when it comes to creativity the brits are better.
There is also the question of how much of party/national resources was consumed in the making of the show.
it is common knowledge that indians, as a racial group, fail to compete with many mongol races (such as chinese, laplanders, inuits, eskimos, etc.) in litheness of body.
i agree with kitapati that it’s awesome but not dance — not in the classical indian definitions of dance.
but this is circus not dance.
china spends more than 1000 crores of rupees on sports and they get kids as young as 3 and train them. they grow up with the aim of getting medals. does this happen in India? allotted money goes to corrupt bureaucrats,/politicians /managers and it hardly reaches the players and their activities.
Wonderful, amazing, astonishing coordination of acrobatics. But, if you call it dance, I believe India does have better dancers (Kalbelia of Rajasthan is one, Punjabi bhangra is another kind).
Agree with Kitapati – the navarasa factor.
There dance is done to actually achieve non-chalance and their genitals are tight and shut so that they get center of mass properly aligned to perform such acrobatics.
Here people like Ambarish , Namitha also dance slowly shaking hips and lips for extracting navarasa or ultimate swarga sukha.
It’s just a different approach.
What these Chinese guys have done is so full of grace, agility and perect synchronisation.
Why should it not be called dance, just because it does not fit into our Indian definition of dance?
There are different types of dances, and what the Chinese have displayed is an awesome form of dance.
Very few people in the world can match the chinese in their agility/flexibility, purely because it is genetic and not what Sree Reddy wants us to believe that it is because of corrupt politicans we cannot dance!
@simple
It is training and pure pratice.
It is not dance, acrobatics.
why call it genetic? Yoga asanas, Indian traditional form of dances can make body very flexible. If proper training is given I am sure Indians can also match them. Show me one institute/sports facility that identifies talent and trains them from childhood. I have not come across such an institute in India.
I muted the audio and watched the clip the first time. If you hadn’t called this dance I wouldn’t have known it is supposed to be a dance. To get many people to do one thing, like puppets, marionettes and robots, I would call this troupe. If I wanted dance I would of course turn to Indian dance – classical/folk/popular/filmi/casual – in all its varieties, a true feast for the senses – Indian dance – the acme of human artistic expression. This clip only strengthens my conclusion about how rich our arts are.
I would tend to agree with Sree here. This feels more like a great acrobatic show rather than a dance.
Dr. Sree Reddy.
Among several other factors, genes play a significant part in deciding a person’s strength, stamina, flexibility, agility.
1. Can you explain why all the 100m sprint racers at the world level are all blacks?
Are you telling me that whites, who do extremely well in other sports, don’t have the infrastructure or the correct trainers?
Chinese have natural agility and flexibity, that is why theyare good in games such as talbe tennis, gymnastics.
Kenyans have a lot of stamina. Else, how does one explain the fact that in a marathon race in India, run by 1000s of Indians, the top ten slots go to Kenyans?
Look at hockey. India began to lose ground when the dynamics of hockey changed. Indians just could not match the pace and stamina of Europeans, Australians and even Koreans.
Not just Indians, even Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Nepalis, Srilankans who all hair from the same geographical area are bad at every sport in the world.
Except Cricket.
Because cricket is not really a global sport and a mere fistful of countries play it.
Sania Mirza is on record saying that she cannot match the Europeans and Americans in their power and stamina. Therefore, she could never be No. 1 or even among the top 20.
It is not dance but the art has been in vogue with street artists now long forgotten.It is practiced right from a tender age of three or four when bodies are supple and perfect them to a degree of perfection that is unbelieveable.The circus artists fiot in into this category.
Prabhanjan Rao.S.B.