Tuesday, March 22, 2011

fun bugging!!

After visiting the hospital we went to a dancing studio in bredäng.Our ambush of tigers was accompanied by Badal, Martin and sir Tonny. We travelled by train,bus and walked a bit to reach the studio. The whole place had been decorated with paw marks which we first thought was done especially for us till we realised that it had always been like that. As soon as we reached there we started with our dance training. Sir Torgny and teacher Ulrika welcomed us and we soon hit the dance floor to dance. We were supposed to be trained for "bugg" which is a dance style of Sweden. We started by learning the beats of the dance and then gradually the dance moves got more and more complicated. We were told that the male dancer is called the leader as he is the one who makes the lady dance or leads the dance moves. Since we had only few males in our group some of the girls had to become leaders.

We started with a dance move that resembles a normal walk, but with a specific beat, rhythm, energy, and elegance.The dance steps got more and more complex and elegant as we moved from one step to the other. After we had learnt a few dance moves we saw a bugg performance by Martin who is a dancer and teacher Ulrika. It was an amazing performance everyone was stunned. Then they asked us if we could perform some Indian dance and we agreed to give a bharatnatyam performance. Urvi and myself, we danced Bharatnatyam and they appreciated our performance. It was a lovely day. It was nice to see some of our so called the non dancers dance so wonderfully.

1 comment:

  1. It was truly fun !! and their toddler was so so cute :)

    Also, the remark made by the teacher Ulrika was very witty. When we were told that the males are the leaders and their left foot is the centre for the basic step, she remarked saying "as usual, the males think they are the centre of the world, but the girls know the truth"
    We had a great time with them and i think we'll be bugging all the way back !! :P

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