to dance is to be out of yourself
larger,more powerful,more beautiful
this is power
it is glory on earth
and it is yours for the taking
-Agnes Demille
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| Registering for the meet Photo- By Shaikh Meraj |
Phew!!!..What an amazing meet it was..Since early morning I was in two minds whether or not to attend the meet.I am so happy to have attended the meet and enjoyed the company of all the bloggers especially
Rinzu,Mercy and
Ratika.It was fun and we all had a great time.It was good to meet the famous celebs Mudassar khan and Feroz khan .They looked very young and brimming with energy.It is through the combination of their hard work and talent that they have come this far.I wish them the best of luck for their new show Dance India Dance Season 4 and hope that they take this show to zeniths never achieved before.
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| Mercy Tetseo,Rinzu and Ratika |
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| Mudassar Khan and Feroz Khan |
Blogging and Dancing for a cause,that concept was new to me and I loved the concept.Dancing for safer streets,dancing for the abolition of female feoticide,dancing against child marriages,dancing for the honor of the soldiers fighting for our sake on the borders.The bloggers came up with awesome performances.The misnomer that bloggers cannot dance was proved wrong.When it came to tapping the feet and doing some salsa ,the blogging geeks couldn't be left behind and they transformed into dancing gods and goddesses.
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| Time to shake a leg |
We write poetry to bring out our bottled up emotions, frustrations and as a mark of protest,the same way dancing also helps us bring out our pent up emotions.When we are angry with someone rather than getting into fights or arguments,its better if we dance out our anger.Caught in a road rage!!!how about dancing out of it,angry with the boss,angry with your spouse,frustrated with corruption,fed up with these never ending scams...Dance It Out!!!..
Shiva is considered the God of dance.He dances the dance of creation,the dance of destruction and the dance of solace and liberation.When he is angry he performs the
Rudra tandav to quench his anger.And he expresses his joy with
Ananda tandav.How about letting our body sway to our joys and anger and listen to the hidden langauge of the soul,dance like Gods and let our spirits soar over the ether of these endless problems and gyrate out of it.
Lets dance to fight poverty and corruption,
Lets dance against child marriages,human trafficking,racism,communalism and patriarchy,
Lets dance for a society where every man and woman is equal,
Lets dance for a society where every woman feels safe,
Lets dance for the unity of this country,
Lets dance together irrespective of caste ,color or creed,
Lets dance for the equality of all religions and for the right of every human being,
Lets dance for one universal religion i.e ' HUMANITY '.
There are many more issues plaguing our country.It is 66 years since our country got independence,it was possible because of the revolution brought by our freedom fighters.But India is still not a country our freedom fighters dream't of.We still have societies which are fragmented on the basis of caste, patriarchy still exists in our society, people still fight with each other on basis of religion,corruption runs rot in our government,files get stuck for years in red tapism ,there are endless crimes against women,thousands of women and children become victims of human trafficking,khaps still call the shots in rural areas,people are still stuck in the centuries old medieval mindset and everyday there are honor killings.The poor are getting poorer and every day thousands die of starvation.We live in parallel societies where a skyscraper and a slum exists side by side.
The social revolution that our freedom fighters thought we would carry forward is missing. For that social revolution to really happen,' we ' the people have to take active part. Lets make our dance play a part in bringing that social revolution.Let us stop talking and let our feet and the body do the talking as the saying goes ' bodies never lie '.
I love sufism. And I love the way dervishes dance to connect to God.For them dancing is a passion,it is meditation,it is their prayer and religion.It is the way they create a world of illusions and a state of reverie..Let us also dream with our feet and dance like the sufis.
A dervish was once asked why he worshipped God through dancing.
' Because ', he replied , to worship God means to die to self,
dancing kills self,
when the self dies all problems die with it.
So lets dance like a dervish killing that self,lets try killing all the problems,dance like a man possessed with love, dance to the music of madness inside us,letting our body speak that unexplored language of the soul and find that God within us. :) ;)
