{"id":5922,"date":"2009-08-27T18:51:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T23:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5922"},"modified":"2009-08-28T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T18:26:42","slug":"set_your_dvrs_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/27\/set_your_dvrs_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Set your DVRs – ABDC Goes Bollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

While some folks are addicted to American Idol or Survivor, my favorite reality competition show, for a couple seasons now, has been MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew<\/a> (ABDC). ABDC brings together dance teams from across the country who compete in a variety of challenges and each week, the illustrious judges<\/a> and America vote a team off. <\/p>\n\n

<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/a>Winning teams from previous seasons including the Jabbawockeez<\/a> and Quest Crew<\/a> have delivered some utterly showstopping performances that have set a high bar for the show in general. Full episodes from previous episodes & seasons are available on line and the ABDC’s top 10<\/a> performance recap is a great intro to the show.<\/p>\n\n

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Season 4 began a couple weeks ago with a new set of crews who’ve been assembled from across the country. While previous seasons were criticized for being overly weighted towards b-boys<\/a> and hip hop, this time around, the producers have tried to venture wide and bring in other styles of music and groups. Towards that end, this week, the 6 remaining ABDC crews will be facing the Bollywood challenge<\/u><\/strong>…<\/p>\n\n

UPDATE<\/u><\/strong> – MTV’s blog has released a few snapshots & commentary from the upcoming episode<\/a>… <\/p>\n\n

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MTV’s ABDC blog provides a quick rundown of the music and style each group will be tasked with<\/a> – <\/p>\n\n

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MTV’s Bollywood Choreographer – Nakul Dev Mahajan<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/table>RHYTHM CITY “Jai Ho” A.R. Rahman & Pussycat Dolls<\/p>\n

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Challenge: BHARATA NATYUM…<\/blockquote>\n

WE ARE HEROES “Arab Money” Busta Rhymes & Ron Brownz \n

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Challenge: GIDDHA…<\/blockquote>\n

AFROBORIKE “Dance Bailalo” Kat De Luna \n

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Challenge: KATHAK…<\/blockquote>\n

VOGUE EVOLUTION “Calabria 2008” Enur \n

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Challenge: RAJASTHANI…<\/blockquote>\n

MASSIVE MONKEES “Bang” Rye Rye Ft. M.I.A. \n

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Challenge: BHANGRA…<\/blockquote>\n

BEAT YA FEET KINGS “So Fine” Sean Paul \n

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Challenge: GARBA…<\/blockquote><\/blockquote>\n\n

Massive Monkees are my current fav for winning the season overall and with this challenge, they certainly got a lucky draw by grabbing perhaps the most crowd-pleasing, and hip-hop amenable dance style from the Desh – Bhangra. By contrast, Afroborike<\/a>, for ex., specializes in a very sensual latin\/salsa style and successfully meshing that with Kathak will be no small feat.<\/p>\n\n

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The new face of Kathak?<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/table>Assisting the teams this week will be California-based choreographer Nakul Dev Mahajan<\/a>. In a pre-show interview, he notes – <\/p>\n\n

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“It will definitely be interesting to see how they execute their style into the different Bollywood genres,” Nakul said. “Certain crews have intricate hand gestures and footwork … which take years to master,” he explains. “Accomplishing those techniques in a week will be mind-blowing.”<\/p>\n

…given the recent upsurge of Bollywood-style dance, we asked Nakul whether he thought America was ready for an all-Indian dance crew next season. “I definitely think having a Bollywood crew on ABDC would add a new element to the show,” he predicted. “[They] would be one of the most entertaining crews to watch due to the diversity of movement that Bollywood offers.”<\/blockquote>\n\n

Should be fun. The Bollywood episode airs this Sunday night @ 9pm on MTV but, due to the popularity of the show, it will almost certainly be on heavy repeat later in the week as well. And, after some delay of course, the entire episode will be up on mtv.com. <\/p>\n\n

Unfortunately, I’ll be travelling when the episode airs so I’ll miss the live show and it might be quite a while before I have a chance to post a followup so y’all will have to watch it without me. MTV has already promised fans several surprises over the course of the show <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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