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I gave this presentation to our team last week. Ok so a few notes about this:
Purpose was to introduce new team-members to names of props, items in our costume, names of traditional moves, little bit of history of both bhangra and giddha, difference between a Sher and Boliyaan, etc. Very basic intro for people with 0 to little exposure to Bhangra. Philosophical stuff at the end is like stuff about our mission statement, like why we do bhangra, what kind of bhangra we try to do (traditional vs. modern and so on).
Blowout slide was just in there for fun, cuz the logo's from the Title slide's image. Many slides are blank or seem disjointed because I showed videos from youtube (for ex. Malwai Giddha and Jhummar i wanted to show video rather than verbalize - it was just easier).
I got a nice summary of "origin of bhangra" from one of Teginder's POL posts (see below). My sources were just cursory Google searches - I didn't cite them in there but if you want to know I can find them...
The "Meaning of Boliyan" thread from BTF was amazingly helpful - that's all I used for the "Lyrics Phrases" slides. I should have included more info on common Bhangra phrases like "Haripah!" "Balle!" "Ashqe!" and "Chak De!" and what those things mean.
To show musical spectrum of Bhangra I showed a few Sarbjit Cheema Only Folk music videos, a Miss Pooja video, Sunny Brown's Tonite, and Kashif's 2 Step Bhangra and also Bombay Rockers just to demonstrate the range of bhangra music.
For Malwai Giddha I showed:
Malwai Giddha
For Jhummar I showed Gabroo TV's Gabroo Shokeen Jhummar Exhibition from DDA as well as this video:
JHOOMER
I also showed this as a pointer, like "Hey guys, this is how everyone should try to dance in terms of energy/expression"
bhagwant singh
Anyways, just a starting point. You'll recognize a lot of the images which I got from the Media Center (thanks to BTF for being such a good resource). Some people on this forum are making a more potent presentation (at least i hope so) so watch out for that! Hit me with any questions/tips.
There are over 30 documented folk dances of Punjab. Bhangra started out in a small area of Punjab and was the folk dance of male farmers (Jatts) to celebrate the harvest. No one knows for sure when Bhangra started (although many websites state the 1400`s with no factual basis). Many believe that Bhangra is the newest of the Punjabi folk dances (much later than the 1400`s) and that it was derived from one way or another from Khatak (a Pathan folk dance). Many scholars have echoed the fact that folk dances usually originate from a combination of many existing dances. Bhangra was no exception. Bhangra early on incorporated Phumnian (from Jammu) and Luddi (a dance of victory originally from the areas of Peshawar and Attock). After 1947 a group of "refugees" or migrant Punjabis (whatever you want to call them) got together while in a refugee camp in Kurukshetra and perfomed Bhangra. At this performance other refuges were there who played different instruments, hence algozey, tumba, chimta, etc were added to Bhangra (so really, these aren`t "traditional" instruments to Bhangra"). This group of men then performed at various venues eventually performing at the republic day celebrations in New Delhi. Baazigars (street performers) also joined this group and added stunts to this NEW Bhangra and from here we eventually get the motivation for the acrobatics seen in American competitions. Over time other folk dances were added to Bhangra such as Jhummer, Pathania, Sammi (a women`s folk dance) etc etc and this dance was being propagated to college and high school students. Eventually this new conglomeration of dances was being judged on stage and competitions were born. A few farming type of actions were created while a group was abroad and this lead to the legend that Bhangra contains actions which resemble farming. False! Then dance ballets were added which depicted Heer-Ranjha, Malki-Keema etc etc. Again, not a part of Bhangra. Over time many of these elements were removed from Bhangra competitions in Punjab with the objective of trying to have this dance once again resemble Bhangra. In America you can see what`s going on first hand.
Teginder Singh Dhanoa
President and Co-Founder, Punjabi Lok Virsa
I gave this presentation to our team last week. Ok so a few notes about this:
Purpose was to introduce new team-members to names of props, items in our costume, names of traditional moves, little bit of history of both bhangra and giddha, difference between a Sher and Boliyaan, etc. Very basic intro for people with 0 to little exposure to Bhangra. Philosophical stuff at the end is like stuff about our mission statement, like why we do bhangra, what kind of bhangra we try to do (traditional vs. modern and so on).
Blowout slide was just in there for fun, cuz the logo's from the Title slide's image. Many slides are blank or seem disjointed because I showed videos from youtube (for ex. Malwai Giddha and Jhummar i wanted to show video rather than verbalize - it was just easier).
I got a nice summary of "origin of bhangra" from one of Teginder's POL posts (see below). My sources were just cursory Google searches - I didn't cite them in there but if you want to know I can find them...
The "Meaning of Boliyan" thread from BTF was amazingly helpful - that's all I used for the "Lyrics Phrases" slides. I should have included more info on common Bhangra phrases like "Haripah!" "Balle!" "Ashqe!" and "Chak De!" and what those things mean.
To show musical spectrum of Bhangra I showed a few Sarbjit Cheema Only Folk music videos, a Miss Pooja video, Sunny Brown's Tonite, and Kashif's 2 Step Bhangra and also Bombay Rockers just to demonstrate the range of bhangra music.
For Malwai Giddha I showed:
Malwai Giddha
For Jhummar I showed Gabroo TV's Gabroo Shokeen Jhummar Exhibition from DDA as well as this video:
JHOOMER
I also showed this as a pointer, like "Hey guys, this is how everyone should try to dance in terms of energy/expression"
bhagwant singh
Anyways, just a starting point. You'll recognize a lot of the images which I got from the Media Center (thanks to BTF for being such a good resource). Some people on this forum are making a more potent presentation (at least i hope so) so watch out for that! Hit me with any questions/tips.
There are over 30 documented folk dances of Punjab. Bhangra started out in a small area of Punjab and was the folk dance of male farmers (Jatts) to celebrate the harvest. No one knows for sure when Bhangra started (although many websites state the 1400`s with no factual basis). Many believe that Bhangra is the newest of the Punjabi folk dances (much later than the 1400`s) and that it was derived from one way or another from Khatak (a Pathan folk dance). Many scholars have echoed the fact that folk dances usually originate from a combination of many existing dances. Bhangra was no exception. Bhangra early on incorporated Phumnian (from Jammu) and Luddi (a dance of victory originally from the areas of Peshawar and Attock). After 1947 a group of "refugees" or migrant Punjabis (whatever you want to call them) got together while in a refugee camp in Kurukshetra and perfomed Bhangra. At this performance other refuges were there who played different instruments, hence algozey, tumba, chimta, etc were added to Bhangra (so really, these aren`t "traditional" instruments to Bhangra"). This group of men then performed at various venues eventually performing at the republic day celebrations in New Delhi. Baazigars (street performers) also joined this group and added stunts to this NEW Bhangra and from here we eventually get the motivation for the acrobatics seen in American competitions. Over time other folk dances were added to Bhangra such as Jhummer, Pathania, Sammi (a women`s folk dance) etc etc and this dance was being propagated to college and high school students. Eventually this new conglomeration of dances was being judged on stage and competitions were born. A few farming type of actions were created while a group was abroad and this lead to the legend that Bhangra contains actions which resemble farming. False! Then dance ballets were added which depicted Heer-Ranjha, Malki-Keema etc etc. Again, not a part of Bhangra. Over time many of these elements were removed from Bhangra competitions in Punjab with the objective of trying to have this dance once again resemble Bhangra. In America you can see what`s going on first hand.
Teginder Singh Dhanoa
President and Co-Founder, Punjabi Lok Virsa
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