Part of this review is a translation of an article on Gawker .
In some cultures, imitation by foreigners is seen as offensive for historical reasons. For example, Americans think it is racist dress of cultures that are no one, especially if they are U.S. minorities (not bad seen cowboy dress, because whites are a minority discriminated against), and especially if one disguised as black people with painted faces. In Spain this is seen as something weird because it does not seem wrong.
This year, the International Skating Federation ruled that the number of free skating choreography should be folk music, saying it had to be the country's folklore of the participants. Some issues have indeed been the culture of each one, as for example the Israeli couple dancing the Hava Nagila (it's as if the English had danced the Cocholatero Paquito)
has been very controversial the issue of a Russian couple, doing a bad version of dance Australian Aboriginal. On the other hand, was very pleased, for example, the Bollywood on Ice without an American couple Indian descent. Some of the reasons why the number, with music from the film Devdas, not offended, and Russia itself, were these:
- The Americans were well documented and hired good Bollywood dance teachers. The Russians, no. They took music they liked, made a similar suit to those used in the culture that produced this music, and did the choreography that gave them the win.
- India is a country that exports its culture and has no problem with the merger, so it is flattering to imitate. In contrast, Aboriginal culture has been despised for centuries, and also in many cases has an intimate or sacred, as the natives do not like to reach out to tinker.
- The American dancers wear clothing appropriate to the dancing within the conventions of figure skating, but have not been made up to simulate a race that is not theirs. The Russians, however, got dark mesh, which is quite ridiculous my opinion. They were removed in the Games.
I think this kind of considerations are important for Eastern dancer and dance when we dance fusions of cultures that are not ours. Sometimes not enough to say "is that I dance fusion." Normally, we do not dance anything that belongs to a people oppressed by colonizers in present neither dance sacred dances that could offend their original creators, but we must hold together to reach out with care and respect.
To judge yourselves, I leave the videos:
The video of Bollywood:
And the Russians Aboriginal Dresses:
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