Omg SO delighted to have you here sharing your knowledge!! I learned so much from your comment and I hope there is more of an influence of traditional Indian styles in the future so there are more opportunities to discuss musicality and word play potential moments! Based on what you talked through, it sounds like he is more of a layman within traditional Indian styles and not an active practitioner, and there could have been more integration of hasta mundra. This was super fun and once again THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE!!
Jessica Holyfield
2025-05-04 02:11:49 +0000 UTC
LONG COMMENT INCOMING but omg i'm actually trained in bharatanatyam which is one of the more well known indian classical styles!! so just to clear something up bollywood is like a modern fusion indian dance style but when i looked up what paramdeep singh had to say about this choreography i couldn't find anything he specifically said but i found some news articles that claimed it incorporated "traditional indian styles" which would not be bollywood but one of the classical styles such as bharatanatyam.
so then i tried to find out of paramdeep was trained in any of the classical styles and i couldn't find anything but he could also have just not talked about it? and when i looked at his choreos on his instagram account they all seem to be more western contemporary to me. but it's not like you need to be trained in a style to be influenced by it considering bollywood was also influenced by classical styles in the first place so i went and watched the moving version of the dance practice to see what hasta mudra (hand gesture) they used and i was really confused because the one in the choreography is not an actual hasta mudra LMAO.
they didn't use anything that would mean horse and the closest mudra to the one they did is https://www.natyasutraonline.com/picture-gallery/asamyuta-hasta-bharatanatyam/Simhamukha-Hasta which is almost the same but the fingers are straightened out instead of bent. now the lyrics here talk about going further and pushing to the front line so maybe he wanted it to signify some kind of movement? idk i tried looking at odissi, kathak, and kuchipudi mudras too and they're about the same as bharatanatyam but maybe it's from one of the styles i didn't check out. actually they used more alapadma but that doesn't relate to anything in the song so i think it's there because it looks pretty and honestly it's a common hand gesture outside of indian classical dance too.
also if curiosity has struck you after reading this, if you want to see what bharatantyam looks like here's an example from one of my favorite dancers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6kNl6aEFUc
deeps
2025-05-03 22:27:41 +0000 UTC
I don't mind being deceived haha. This was a great watch!!! LOVED this side of them and it makes me SUPER excited to see their title track affiliated!! (Another great rec Gabi!!!)
Jessica Holyfield
2025-04-30 09:47:45 +0000 UTC
Loooveeed this!
Also I didn’t mean to deceive you Jess ahahhahhaha, I meant there wasn’t a ton of choreo shown in the visualizer 😆
Glad you liked it, when I first watched I immediately thought of what you would think of this because it’s so different for a K-pop choreo, at least in what I’ve seen before.
I had been hoping to find a dance practice without the singing so we could see them go a bit more full out but alas. Love to hear them sing though!
I also was thinking how the choreo would look if they were barefoot because it also has this lyrical or contemporary(?) feel to some of the movements.
Can’t wait for the next reaction! Totally different vibes from this!