8/7/2023 0 Comments Mj dance style![]() ![]() It wasn’t long before Bhatt became a fixture at community events in the city – suit, tie, hat and MJ moves in place. Impressed by the skills, Bhatt was gifted a suit and tie to pull together the Jackson look, and within two months, he was on stage, performing on Billie Jean as an MJ impersonator at a mayoral fund raiser in Leicester. Dressed on a whim in a saree, at a large family gathering, he decided to break into a Jackson medley. The first opportunity to do a Jackson came after the family shifted to a working-class estate in Leicester, when Bhatt was nine. “I was hooked to the visual experience he offered.” “His dance is a lot like kathak in that it tells a story – it had a start, a middle and an end, a clear narrative that I found fascinating,” said Bhatt. Born to a Gujarati migrant family with African roots, he recalls watching the video of the song Thriller, released in 1983, from behind a curtain in his London home, fascinated and terrified in equal parts. “Also it is good for classical dancers to challenge their muscle memory, which gets rather set in a pattern if we don’t get into an uncomfortable zone and question ourselves.” Anand Bhatt as a Michael Jackson impersonator.īhatt’s fascination for the moonwalker started when he was all of three. “What I found amazing was that that kathak conveys is often seen in Jackson’s dance – that lightning effect, striking hard but vanishing quickly,” said Mangaldas. The sassiness, the commanding here-watch-me swagger, those small delicate shifts in body weight, the flick of the wrist, and the quicksilver changes – all typically Jackson – form a language that the dancers at Drishtikon Studio, run by avante garde kathak artist Aditi Mangaldas, were comfortable with. In December, Bhatt taught a roomful of young kathak artists some essential Jackson in a movement material class in Delhi. ![]() In his three decades in dance, Bhatt found that the expressive and dynamic elements of Jackson’s style, cemented and strengthened his links with kathak. He also trained in kathak for 13 years, though he chooses not to perform. Through the 1990s and early 2000s, he was one of the best-known Jackson impersonators in the United Kingdom. For the greatest living legend of kathak, there is something deeply rivetting about the one-man Jackson gharana.ĭancer-producer Anand Bhatt shares Birju Maharaj’s fascination with the king of pop. Students of kathak will tell you that if there is one dancer Birju Maharaj loves to watch with avid interest, it is Michael Jackson. ‘Blind’ review: Latest remake of Korean thriller is slick but unfeeling.Same-sex couple who went missing from Bikaner traced in Chennai amid ‘love jihad’ allegations.‘Sweet Kaaram Coffee’ review: Sugar, spice – and bitterness.Interview: BJP’s preemptive strike in Maharashtra before 2024 will play out in other states too.Review: In Bangladeshi psychodrama ‘Hawa’, the sea throws up fish and temptation.Rush Hour podcast: Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for defamation is ‘just and proper’.‘Tarla’ review: Tarla Dalal biopic rarely wavers from the recipe book.Seven winners receive the New India Foundation’s Rs 18 lakh fellowships to write new books.Pune school principal assaulted allegedly by members of Hindutva group.Watch: Car narrowly escapes falling boulder on mountain road in Himachal Pradesh. ![]()
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