Just wanted to share that sometimes people spontaneously ignore all kinds of boundaries just to dance together like they had known each other from Adam.

Do you like Bollywood movies? I do! This weekend we´ve enjoyed the BollyMadrid festival, and it´s been a blast... Apart from showing the movies, it´s a showcase of Indian culture and gastronomy in my city (I live in the multi-culti section of Madrid, so among many other nationalities from Asia and Africa, you can meet many people from India).

The most striking thing, during a stage performance of a Madrid based school of Bollywood dancing, was how the Indian immigrants in the audience were reacting with glee to the music, and ended up dancing with Madrid girls... it was a hopeful sight. I´m just noting it here because I think that the power of cinema can be used for good purposes, for example, bringing distant cultures together.

This was the song that sent EVERYBODY dancing... even me, the resident stiff, LOL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPvPUk96vb0&feature=related

Oooh I almost forgot this other one, also a favorite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfFxWrc5lPc&feature=related




-- Edited by mara on Sunday 7th of June 2009 03:36:47 PM