Year 8, Unit 3: Bollywood Dance Lesson Aims:

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To understand what is meant by Bollywood and Bollywood Dance

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To know and understand the characteristics of Bollywood Dance

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To be able to complete a worksheet on the characteristics of Bollywood Dance

Fantasy and family entertainment Film industry in India The films are enjoyed by people all over the world: China, Middle east, Russia and parts of Africa.

Bollywood Facts The name is a mixture of Bombay and Hollywood Modern lives mixed with traditional Largest industry in the world – 800 movies a year Language is Hindi and Urdu

The Features of a Bollywood Movie:

 Handsome heroes  Beautiful heroines  Spectacular dance routines  Melodic songs  Colourful costumes  Lush locations  Extravagant sets  Noble themes of love, honour and sacrifice.

Bollywood Movies can be:

 Silly  Violent  Not make much sense  Tacky  Slick  Vulgar  Sophisticated  Full of energy and life

Formula

Classical Indian Dance

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= Indian Folk Dance Bollywood Dance

Classical Indian Dance

Kathak Mohini Attam Kuchipudi Odissi Bharatha Natyam Manipuri

Copy down the key words of Bollywood..

 To have a really good sense of rhythm.

 Can project emotions using eyes, hand gestures, fingers and footwork  To have good balance and to move with confidence.

 To feel and understand the music.

 To appear to control the music, almost as though the music is trying to keep up with the dancing.

 To display grace and elegance, an essential in Indian dance!

Indian Folk Dance

There are 35 different Indian folk dances that generally come under 4 categories:

Ritualistic Masked

Lesson Aim

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To gain knowledge skills and understanding of Indian Hastas

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To be able to compose a motif of Indian Hastas

In Indian dance the dancer-actor communicates the meaning of a play/story and to do this there are movements for every part of the body, the eyes and hands being the most important.

There are:

•13 movements for the head •7 for the eyebrows •6 for the nose •6 for cheek • nine for the neck • 36 for the eyes • 32 movements of feet • 24 single-hand gestures (hastas)

Gestures may mean more than 30 different things quite unrelated to each other.

•7 for the chin • 13 for combined hands