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Yes, the videos were available.  Extraordinary especially the snake dance
one. I was interested in the presence of the male gaze as well of course in
the dnance.  the latter brought to mind these lines from Yeats


Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?

The lines have always been obscure to me, until I once watched a dance
workshop performed by the Bangarra Aboriginal Dance troupe.  The dancers
were working with Indigenous adolescent boys and girls and where they
succeeded  most you could not tell the dancer from the dance. Perfect art
seems effortless or as you might say born out of grace.

comradely

Gary

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Marla Vijaya kumar via Marxism <
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> Sometime back, on a lazy evening my childhood friend asked me "What is
> grace"?I said it has nothing to do with beauty, but the way a person
> conducts himself/herself in daily life. I could recall so many people who
> had that quality. Here is one song from an old Urdu film, "Anupama".
> Sharmila Tagore, the leading lady of the film exudes natural grace.Kuchh
> Dil Ne Kaha - Dharmendra - Sharmila Tagore - Anupama - Lata - Evergreen
> Hindi Songs
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> There is another video, from the 1965 film, Dev Anand's 'The Guide', in
> which there is a traditional snake dance. Waheeda Rehaman, the heroine,
> effortlessly shows how the character in the film is seeking perfection in
> dance, her life's passion.Snake Dance - Waheeda Rehman - Dev Anand - Guide
> - S.D. Burman - Bollywood Dances
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> May be it is diversion after months of debate on Greece.Vijaya Kumar M
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