and wave 'em like you just don't ca-are.
Not as cool as updating live from the event, but I thought you all would get a kick out of it. I just returned from the Garba/Ras event of the wedding I'm attending this weekend - the wedding I've been dreading/anticipating for the past year or so :P
Garba is like a line dance, only in a circle. I tried to follow one round, but really could not. I was sort of pulled in without being taught the steps, though.
Ras (a line dance with pairs, where you hold two decorated sticks [dandias} and hit your partner's sticks in rhythm, then move on down the line) was a little easier to pick up, somehow, even though there were (potentially dangerous) props involved. I even learned something called "12-step", which all the kids were excited about. But by the time my aged curmudgeonly self learned it, the Ras part of the dance was over.
OK, that's all for now. There may or may not be a Part II to this tomorrow. Thank you all for listening to me b!tch and moan about this for the past 9 months or so!
3 comments:
hey. these dances are learned, not some sort of instinctive habit you're born with! plus as a South Indian, I have to say I didn't grow up going to Garba-Ras events, so...there's a clear disadvantage there =) But great henna designs!
Yes! I used the South Indian ("uh, my people don't dance....") excuse many a time this weekend :P Luckily I am not afraid of the (much easier) dorky bhangra moves so I could join in the reception fun :P but you know what the South Asians are missing from their weddings? the chicken dance!
awesome! even some of us gujuratis have no idea how to garba (or bharat natyam). but i don't dance generally :)
love the make-up and henna!
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