Pans People Dancing to “Sound & Vision”

Has everybody noticed the Jackson Heights mannequins that I added to the top of the blog?  This seems like a fitting way to welcome them…

Basement Jaxx - Romeo (a rerun!)

I posted this once before, but it was near the beginning of my time on this blog, and at first I only posted a link, not the actual clip.  So, I thought it would be nice to have a rerun.  Part of the reason is that one of the blogs that I link to out [...]

From Karan Arjun - the Ultimate Mother’s Day Movie

Along the Same Lines as the Previous Post, But Far Stranger…

I just kind of stumbled upon this one.   The same year, 1971…  This was a British dance group called Pans People…
 

My Favorite Song from the Movie Hare Rama Hare Krishna

Commenting on my post from a week ago, Sitaji of Bollywood Food Club reminded me of the excellent post that she wrote on the movie Hare Rama Hare Krishna, centered on the same clip that I posted here, for the movie’s hit song Dum Maro Dum. 
(Although that wasn’t the first time I’d heard that song, nor, curiously, did [...]

Shobana in the Video for Bally Sagoo’s Remix of “Kabhie Kabhie Mere Dil Mein”

That’s Shobana and Amitabh Bachchan  in the video for Bally Sagoo’s remix of a classic Bollywood song, Kabhie Kabhie Mere Dil Mein.  Bachchan was the star of the film that this song came from, Kabhie Kabhie, which came out in 1976.  Bally Sagoo picked up that song around 25+ years later and made it nice and dubby…

  

Shobana Live on Broadway - Folk (bharatanatyam with snake dances!)

When did Shobana dance on Broadway?  It’s almost impossible to find out when, as all references to the DVD that came out seem to omit the date of the original performance.  But from what I can tell (with a whole lot of searching), it was a performance that happened last summer, maybe August.  Well, now I’m going to [...]

Tribal Fusion: Marjhani at Tribal Fusion Faire 2006

Well, I don’t claim to know much about belly dancing or tribal fusion (which I feel that I need to say now that I know about a couple of people who might be reading this), and I hadn’t ever heard of this person before…  But I thought this was pretty cool (not to mention unusual).  Though [...]

What’s Your Fusion?

Found completely by accident: “What’s Your Fusion” Promo for Dance Fusion 2006 (”Get cracking!” (I bet this would have been fun to go to…

Shobana Live On Broadway - Finale