Bollywood dance taking America by storm
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 23:54 IST   |    5 Comments
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Bollywood dance taking America by storm
Bangalore: Bollywood dance craze is spreading across U.S., Canada and Europe. The bollywood dance studios, centers and schools are popping up almost everywhere across cities of U.S., Canada and many countries of Europe to teach its hip-shaking moves. Many night clubs are having 'Bollywood nights'. In the last few years, the bollywood dance gained the foothold in U.S. and European countries and success of Oscar winner 'Slumdog Millionaire' added fuel to the fire. Many artists have reportedly used its style, including Missy Elliot, Black Eyed Peas, Truth Hurts, Daddy Yankee, Dr. Dre; and besides Slumdog, various other movies like Moulin Rouge, Monsoon Wedding, The Guru, Ghost World, The Inside Man, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Bombay Dreams' also showed bollywood dance sequences. IT giants like Oracle and Cisco are reportedly hosting bollywood dance classes on their campuses in exercise areas. University of California, Berkeley has its own Bollywood dance team called Ishaara. Longinus Fernandes, who directed about 3,000 dancers in Slumdog Millionaire's final 'Jai Ho' dance sequence, recently, taught Bollywood master class 'Dance 101' in Atlanta. Besides people of India descent, many mainstream Americans and foreigners attended the class, which cost around $40 each. Even at Dance DC festival in Washington DC, the opening night on August 18 is going to begin with 'Live! A Bollywood Experience' performance. On the growing popularity of bollywood dance, Rajan Zed, a Hindu statesman says, "While dancing on new bollywood songs, we should not forget our classical dances like Bharatnatyam, Kathak, Manipuri, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Kathakali, Sattriya, Mohiniaattam, Chhau and hundreds of regional folk dances. We need to be working continuously for their promotion and preservation."

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