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I take it you do Bhangra because it is fun and it is a part of our culture. Well to educate you a little, Gidha is a part of our culture that is dying down. We need to help and encourage the people that are actually trying to make it happen rather than bash them or insult them. I don't have anything against co-ed or all girl bhangra teams, but Bhangra actually is a males dance from Punjab. Gidha was made for women from Punjab. If you don't know a thing or two maybe you should ask someone.Vick said:
To tell you the truth, Gidha is actually a harder dance to perform than Bhangra. In Gidha each individual is singing LIVE and dancing at the same time, which I'm sure your CD BHANGRA doesn't make you do. Proper Gidha teams perform live and proper bhangra teams do as well. Maybe you should really look into asking someone so you don't make a fool out of yourself when it comes to the Punjab culture. You dig??Vick said:
So I guess my question is, why would a girl choose to be on a gidha team over a bhangra team? Let's be real here, watching 2-3 min gidha routine is hard enough, watching a 3 hour show would be torture... If I cared about gidha enough I would invest more time into learning about it, but honestly, I don't care... haha...hkgidha said:
hkgidha said:Well, if you did not show any interest you would not be wasting so much of your valuable time to comment on a posting that didn't pertain to you. Also, Bhangra was meant for MEN and Gidha was meant for MALE AND FEMALES. You have Malwai Gidha teams and you have traditional gidha teams. Bhangra was intended for men, but the western culture changed the routine of it. Bhangra is done with algoze, dhol, chimta and a singer not popping in a CD and dancing to the routine. There is so much technicality behind the two traditional dances from Punjab, which are BHANGRA AND GIDHA.
Punjabonline says it very nicely: Primarily men performed Bhangra, while the ladies performed their own fierce, yet elegant, dance called Giddha.
I am just focusing on the roots of Punjabi culture. So get your facts together. Also, why even bother to message here?! Plus you might want to get in touch with some TRADITIONAL bhangra teams and they might help give you a better understanding of what BHANGRA really is. :
Okay like no offense HK I love you and I'm so glad you joined BTF, but like umm bhangra was not handed down from God. It wasn't "made" or "intended" for any particular gender. Sure traditionally males performed it and they made it up, but that's just how history and tradition was. Not bringing down the significance of that at all. But 8 guys didn't get together and "create" bhangra one day so you can't say who it was "made" or "intended" for. We can only say bhangra has happened to be male in history and tradition.hkgidha said:
