Hey guys! It’s Lucie Fink.
And welcome back to the next
Try Living With Lucie: Dance episode.
Woohoo!
Can you guess what today’s dance is?
When I asked my Instagram
which dance styles I should try for
5 Days of Dance,
I got a ton of requests for
Bollywood dancing.
Now this is one dance style that
I, myself, have never tried,
but aesthetically I’ve always been drawn
to the dance form because of the energy
and the colors and the costumes.
So this episode was the perfect excuse
for me to try it out.
I discovered Sarina Jain,
a dance instructor at Ailey Extension
and the founder of the Indian dance style,
Masala Bhangra.
It’s an Indian dance program
that combines Bhangra and Bollywood.
I ask you to channel your
masculine side with Bhangra
and your feminine grace with Bollywood.
You put it together and
you get Masala Bhangra.
You learn all the moves in one hour
and then at the end,
you jam it out as if you could
be in a Bollywood movie.
A few things:
when we dance, we move our head.
And we move our head to the
point and we close our eyes
and we feel the beat of the music.
Let ourselves go completely
because now you’re dancing Bollywood.
She walked me through some typical moves
that she teaches in her classes.
Your first move is called Dohl beat.
So five, six, right leg goes...
One and two and three, left side.
Five and six and seven, right side.
I learned Balle Balle knees.
Move your head from side to side. Okay?
So you’re going to move it.
You’re going to go right, left, right, left.
Two, three, clap it out.
Move your head. Move your head.
Move your head.
Tick-tock.
And two and three and four.
The Bollywood Butterfly.
Right toe, left.
The Bollywood Snake.
Snake your arms.
You’re gonna take your hand over your heart
and you’re gonna be like, “Oh my god.”
Go back and forth like, “Wow.”
You just totally fell in love.
Seven, go!
Right leg.
Left leg. Hands over your heart.
Five, six, drop your hands.
Go.
Right leg.
Left leg.
Five, six, seven, hold.
Oh that’s fun.
I like that move.
Yeah?
I think you’re a pro.
I think you’re amazing.
Now keep in mind that these are terms
that she created to make the
dance simpler to grasp
and the moves more doable.
And because she’s developed her
own kind of dance fitness,
today’s lesson was really
a deep dive into Masala Bhangra
rather than traditional Bollywood
or traditional Bhangra dancing.
Nice.
She taught me balle balle,
which means “hooray” or “hurrah” or “woo woo!”
If you ever go to an Indian function
and you don’t know what to say
and you’re standing in the middle of the crowd,
you can go, “Balle Balle!”
And we were of course,
screaming it all day.
Balle!
—One, two. —Balle balle!
—One, two, three. —Balle balle!
Woo! Balle balle!
Hold!
Am I doing well?
In India, they do high-fives.
Oh not low-fives, never a low-five.
High-five. High-five.
And after I learned the dance,
Sarina put me in a Punjabi salwar.
It’s a combination of a little Bhangra
and a combination of a little Bollywood.
This is known as a kurta top.
And of course, to add in
the Bollywood elements,
we glitz it up a little bit.
The suit had rhinestones on the back of it.
These are traditional patiala pants.
They all have the pleats.
And it’s so good because you know
you don’t find these pleats
as much anymore.
Should I go behind the tree
and get changed?
You could do that.
It’s very bizarre that you said,
"Let me go behind the tree"
because that’s very Bollywood.
I love it! I love it!
Woo!
So let’s now complete it
by giving you a bindi.
A bindi, in the old days,
it used to mean that a woman was married.
Times have changed.
Now's a piece of jewelry that
completes an Indian outfit.
Madonna has sported it.
You know, Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears
sported all in their music
videos that they’ve done.
So if I ever wear an Indian outfit
and I don’t have a bindi on,
I will feel very naked.
This is more of a Bhangra effect, for sure.
But you know, if you see
Bollywood movies today…
“Dil Bole Hadippa” which means:
my heart goes woo!
“Dil Bole Hadippa,”
it’s a great Bollywood movie.
I love it.
So you’ll see a lot of the dance moves,
a lot of the songs, you know the girls are
wearing this outfit during
Bollywood and Bhangra moves.
It’s awesome.
Here we go.
Lucie, are you ready?
I’m ready!
Balle balle!
Woo!
Balle balle!
I had so much fun today learning about
the Indian culture, the clothing,
the music, and more.
And every Masala Bhangra class
is not only an awesome way to learn
about that culture,
but it’s also a total full body workout
that had me dripping sweat.
She did awesome.
And you know what was
beautiful about her is
she has such an open spirit
to try anything.
Trying on the outfit and the bindi
and now she just has to put on the makeup
and go to an Indian party
and then I hope she takes me with her.
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