« New Yorkers are very rare and delicate creatures | Main | Current Knitting: Oooh, baby, baby »
October 16, 2006
Latest Dance Article
Conversations with a Legend on Pandit Birju Maharaj:
Sen, the senior of Maharaj’s students, announced that instead of performing an eleven beat composition, she would perform a new one of nine and a half beats. Nine and a half. I asked a friend expert in Indian dance to count the beats after the performance; it wasn’t possible with English numbers, but could be done with bols. It seemed the performance’s length was because Maharaj was enjoying himself so much that he could not stop.
Posted by Leigh Witchel at October 16, 2006 1:51 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.leighwitchel.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/552