Thursday, December 6, 2007

Now For Something Completly Different, Bollywood Meets Belly Dance.

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I did not really fancy the Notting Hill Carnival again, just too many people and so easy for Pwca to be trod on, even trampled to death. So after a few Pwca pints down in 'The Borough', I took a walk along the South Bank. Buetifull day and per chance I came across the last day of the National Theatres August Bank Holiday Dance Festival. The Monday was given over to Near Eastern Belly Dance and Indian 'Bollywood' Dancing, I got a seat up on an outside Balcony and had a really good afternoon and early evening. The music was great and the dancing fantastic with much audience partcipation, soon all my ''Pwca Problems'' were drifting far away, helped by a few ''Pwca Pints''. See some info below to follow up on.
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This Indian and Belly dancing plus the music is excellent, no doubt about it good exercise for both male and female Pwca, much entertaining than Cymry 'Dance y Werin' stuff, jumping over broomsticks and all that. So, I am advocating that Pwca adopt this form of Eastern dance, a mix of Bollywood and Belly Dance and we will arrive at our own ''Pwca Fusion'', possibly something similar to the Gothic Fusion Belly Dancing I mention over in my TAN y BONT Gothic Blog. http://cymrugothic.blospot.com/
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See some pics below taken at aforementioned Dance Festival. (c) O.G. 2007.
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To conclude on a serious note, you might well have heard of Reggae & Rap but Rai? If not look out for Rai music and read up on it's history and associated radical politics. See link below:
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RAI : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
Rai has been seen as a music of rebellion, in part because of its suppression by the Algerian authorities and in part because of its lyrics' departures from ...
www.musicweb-international.com/encyclopaedia/r/R9.HTM - 13k - cached - related
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That's it, so Pwca on!
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