Bhangra: A journey from India’s wheat fields to the US White House
The Indian dance form is now taught in several studios in the West and it’s become all the rage in colleges and universities, too.
Lithe and graceful Manpreet Toor, who lives in the Bay Area in the US, is a famous figure in the South Asian dance scene. She fuses Bhangra, Bollywood, hip hop and giddha- which is the female counterpart of the Bhangra- a folk dance for women in Punjab, India.
Bhangra has come a long way from its humble, rural beginnings. Bhangra has been a traditional male dance performed in Punjab, the breadbasket of India, with men dressed in traditional kurta and lungis, and fan-shaped turbans in candy colours, with zesty, fast-paced movements and arms and legs thrown up in the air in gay abandon, with kicks and leaps and a lot of energy. Rumaalan, or handkerchiefs, were traditionally tied around a dancer’s wrist to highlight their complex hand movements.
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