We uploaded a video of Indian dancers performing Hava Nagila in a Bollywood-style staging in an Indian film in April 2010. It was Israel’s time to reciprocate in April and May.
A Bollywood Dance workshop was held on April 29 at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv, Israel’s most famous dance facility, to kick off the month-long cultural festival “Celebrating India in Israel.” The session drew hundreds of Israelis who were ecstatic to be there. Gilles Chuyen was in charge of the workshop.
Gilles Chuyen has been working in India with diverse dance traditions such as Chhau Mayurbhanj, Kathak, and Bharata Natyam since 1994. He was trained in France in Folk, Modern Jazz, Ballet, and modern dance genres. His dance company In Step’s repertoire includes modern solo works such as Rasa – the dance of emotions, which he toured France and India with, as well as various group pieces such as Colours and Prakriti.
He has choreographed plays directed by some of India’s most prominent directors, taking him throughout the country as well as to the United Kingdom, Singapore, Pakistan, Mexico, and Colombia. Ad campaigns and stage events in China, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa have all been part of his Bollywood career. He is the choreographer and artistic director of Sanjoy Roy’s Bollywood Love Story- A Musical, which has recently toured Switzerland, Austria, Germany, South Africa, Spain, and Italy. In addition to choreography and acting as a dancer, he has worked on feature films in Bollywood.
Source: http://www.jewishhumorcentral.com/2011/07/israel-dances-to-indian-bollywood-music.html
