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How bhangra was? Beards = folk? Here's a picture of my father-in-law and his bhangra buddies back in the '70s. Notice how a third of his crew don't have beards? You're welcome.singhta27 said:Personally i feel that dancers should try to keep a dhari for comps simply cause thats how bhangra was. Open dhari, turla paggs ect, lets be real everyone is making bhangra more modern, but we're losing the aspect of being folk. The roots of bhangra are everything. I tie up my dhari, but you can tell from a far that i have one. Plus you look like a man not a woman or a pedo. Just my personal opinion. Anyone who can grow/keep a dhari should.
Romy said:How bhangra was? Beards = folk? Here's a picture of my father-in-law and his bhangra buddies back in the '70s. Notice how a third of his crew don't have beards? You're welcome.singhta27 said:Personally i feel that dancers should try to keep a dhari for comps simply cause thats how bhangra was. Open dhari, turla paggs ect, lets be real everyone is making bhangra more modern, but we're losing the aspect of being folk. The roots of bhangra are everything. I tie up my dhari, but you can tell from a far that i have one. Plus you look like a man not a woman or a pedo. Just my personal opinion. Anyone who can grow/keep a dhari should.
Conceptually, I'm pretty positive what we associate as bhangra (stage bhangra with all the psuedo-traditional aspects) is a more recent development. If we are going to go back to the 50's and use that as our basis for a traditional dance, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have jhoomer, dhamaal, luddi etc as they are their own seperate dances. Gibbs and others can cover this...but whatevsinghta27 said:Again thats why i wrote that its my opinion haha, i know that not having a dhari is what most people do, thats cool too, I'm not saying its wrong, but as far as folk goes, the original dancers (the farmers) majority of them had dhari's. Plus malwai giddah came before bhangra from what i know, and most dancers had dhari's then too. Bhangra has been dated back to the early 50's so if you can find me a picture from then, ill change my opinion. And i don't know what kind of math you're doing, but its a 8 man team of dancers and 4 of them have dhari's... Here look at this picture of my friends dad, a captain from Khalsa college amritsar in 1963. (scroll past your picture) Youre welcome.
Romy said:How bhangra was? Beards = folk? Here's a picture of my father-in-law and his bhangra buddies back in the '70s. Notice how a third of his crew don't have beards? You're welcome.singhta27 said:Personally i feel that dancers should try to keep a dhari for comps simply cause thats how bhangra was. Open dhari, turla paggs ect, lets be real everyone is making bhangra more modern, but we're losing the aspect of being folk. The roots of bhangra are everything. I tie up my dhari, but you can tell from a far that i have one. Plus you look like a man not a woman or a pedo. Just my personal opinion. Anyone who can grow/keep a dhari should.
nmistry2 said:if you can grow a beard you should definitely do it but focus on dancing first its definitely more important
singhta27 said:Again thats why i wrote that its my opinion haha, i know that not having a dhari is what most people do, thats cool too, I'm not saying its wrong, but as far as folk goes, the original dancers (the farmers) majority of them had dhari's. Plus malwai giddah came before bhangra from what i know, and most dancers had dhari's then too. Bhangra has been dated back to the early 50's so if you can find me a picture from then, ill change my opinion. And i don't know what kind of math you're doing, but its a 8 man team of dancers and 4 of them have dhari's... Here look at this picture of my friends dad, a captain from Khalsa college amritsar in 1963. (scroll past your picture) Youre welcome.
Romy said:How bhangra was? Beards = folk? Here's a picture of my father-in-law and his bhangra buddies back in the '70s. Notice how a third of his crew don't have beards? You're welcome.singhta27 said:Personally i feel that dancers should try to keep a dhari for comps simply cause thats how bhangra was. Open dhari, turla paggs ect, lets be real everyone is making bhangra more modern, but we're losing the aspect of being folk. The roots of bhangra are everything. I tie up my dhari, but you can tell from a far that i have one. Plus you look like a man not a woman or a pedo. Just my personal opinion. Anyone who can grow/keep a dhari should.
So basically you're saying that men without beards look like women, or pedophiles. I'm not the most politically correct person on this forum, but there's so many things wrong with this statement I don't even know where to begin. Were the borderline sexism and/or reference to child molestation even necessary in your attempt to prove a point?singhta27 said:Plus you look like a man not a woman or a pedo.
campy614 said:So basically you're saying that men without beards look like women, or pedophiles. I'm not the most politically correct person on this forum, but there's so many things wrong with this statement I don't even know where to begin. Were the borderline sexism and/or reference to child molestation even necessary in your attempt to prove a point?singhta27 said:Plus you look like a man not a woman or a pedo.
As far as the actual discussion - I don't personally believe it matters. With 8-16 people dancing on stage at one time, the last thing most people are focusing on is whether or not a few dancers have dharis. There are many reasons why some dancers choose to go clean shaven (maybe they have a job; maybe THEY think they look better without once - since, you know, it's really up to them on what looks good/doesn't) - that's their personal business. Focus on the dance and execution, and putting on a show. THIS is what's important.