Thursday, March 12, 2015

Oriental Dance and Indian influences

I have found myself recently involved in several long discussions pertaining to "fusion". As someone who is constantly experimenting with forms, this is a daily dialogue, but found a video that really stopped me in my tracks:

 

I am very generally not a proponent of the word "fusion" let alone a mixing like this. So, I leave it to you: watch, comment, what do you think?

Where is fusion appropriate and where is not? How do we define the limits of experimentation? What responsibilities do we have to the form as we learn it?