In Reply to: american dancer posted by Subha on February 13, 2006 at 11:25:37:

 assuming you have trained since a tender age and are an excellent dancer now and practice for 3 hours daily, and you move to the US either for further studies, or because of marriage etc., would you become one of the local American dancers who needs to be educated on real bharatanatyam? I would not think so...

Or are you talking about the Indians who are born to parents who migrated here and learn bhartanatyam from local and visiting teachers? I agree that many of them would not have the same depth of knowledge as you would being in India... However, you should note that many of these are the attendees of the workshops taught by visiting great dancers and stay in touch with the art because they love it... even in this population, there is a real good chance that there is a not so stupid, lazy, greedy and fat dancer who could outdo the dancers trained in India or be equally good...

My point is, yes we need excellent dancers to come to the USA and present to the audiences here. But, please do not think of the people here disrespectfully particularly the dancing community.. most often it is a bunch of them that will organize tours for you... if you move here and try to work with others to organize a tour for your teacher, would you become a fat, lazy dancer who does not know real bharatanatyam... Please keep in mind that even if dancers here are substandard and have no clue, they have the option to come to India to see you and other dancers do real bharatnatyam instead of taking the trouble to bring the real bharatanatyam dance here or pay to see your program here... more so if there are dancers of calibre living in the US who deserve the opportunity equally well as dancers in India..
 
 

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