This is a video of the 2014 Miss America contestant and winner, Nina Davuluri. For the talent portion of the pageant, she did a Bollywood fusion dance! I thought it was particularly awesome that she was an American performing a Bollywood dance. She has classical Bharatnatyam training. Bharatnatyam is a form of classical Indian dance that developed in the late 19th/early 20th century.
I really loved listening to the piece by Lou Harrison in class. I wanted to find something that incorporated string instruments. This also was interesting to me because of the fact that it was an American gamelon. This piece is absolutely beautiful and fun!
I absolutely love this video! The pipa is a Chinese instrument. I particularly love that she explains what each individual thing on the Pipa represents! It's absolutely beautiful!
It really is cool seeing Bollywood dancing in an American beauty pageant. She was also really good!!! I really love the pipa video. It is really informative and she is really talented at playing it.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that you posted the Miss America clip--I thought it was wonderful that they chose a woman who's family was from India. It's nice to see some more about her. And I cannot believe you posted that particular clip on the Chinese pipa--I was figuring to show it in class tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteThe Lou Harrison is really interesting. It's such an interesting combination of styles. Also, I almost put that clip from the Miss. America pageant in my blog post, I find it really interesting that she was able to combine the two styles. (like in the Lou Harrison piece)
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