Exercises Done On A Ballet Dance Bars

By Irda Kadir

The ballet bar allows beginners and novice dancers to do a variety of exercises to improve their posture and steadiness. The bar exercises come in many forms and involve foot and hand work.

As a ballet dancer, having a bar is important when you warm up and practice cardinal routines. The bars come in two varieties. Most traditional dance studios have the older wall mounted bars. These give more stability and poise when you are doing your warm ups.

The cardinal bar exercises are monotonous and extremely slow. This is however their main strength. The exercises help build strength in the dancer's feet and legs. They also help the dancers learn correct dance postures.

If you want to use a ballet bar at home, you should make sure that the height of your bar is at least up to your waist. Most portable bars have adjustable heights to suit the dancer's requirements.

The place you buy your ballet bar is also important. A good idea is to ask ballet studios about their suppliers. You can also ask novice dancers and teachers about their preferences.

Advanced dancers use the bar as partners before they actually dance with a male ballet dancer. The bar is also used to allow dancers to maintain their graceful poses and enhance them through thorough repetition.

When older dancers start doing exercises, the bar in an invaluable companion as it aids them with ankle strengthening exercises. The bar thus helps both beginners and advanced students to maintain their posture and steadiness on their feet.

Most wall mounter bars are made of metal or wood. The portable bars come in myriad colors and metals. It is wiser to choose light weight metallic bars in the portable variety. One must also pay special attention to the finish on both wall mounted and portable bars. The better its finish, the longer the life of the bar. - 31486

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Bollywood is an Important Part of Indian Culture

By Sudha Kaviraj

Most people wouldn't even begin to imagine the humble origins of Bollywood. Indian cinema can be attributed to the two great ancient epics of India, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata which have provided a solid foundation for much of India's commercial cinema today which is fondly referred to as Bollywood.

Early Indian cinema took on the role of delivering a distinct moral code particularly when the Mahatma Gandhi-led national movement was at its peak. It was unsurprising that most Bollywood directors and screenplay writers were partial to the Gandhian philosophy. Many directors were passionate about making their films a vehicle for messages of social reform.

During Mahatma Gandhi's era, Indian commercial cinema reflected Mahatma's social concerns. Caste based inequalities were tackled in films like Sujata, Acchut and Haasil. Dil Ek Mandir focussed on the oppression of women in family and society. And most prominent perhaps which seems to be most relevant in Bollywood films today is the disparity between rich and poor in films like Pyaasa, Lawaaris and Jaagte Raho.

Now Bollywood is very commercial and as ever before remains an integral part of Indian culture. Just as in the West, many people like to read about the lives of A-list actors in Grazia or Heat magazines; pages brimming with celebrity diets, fitness regimes and DVDs, fans of Bollywood actors and actresses fall over themselves to emulate the lives of their screen icons whether it be their clothes, makeup, dance styles or workout regimes.

In India the trend to copy the lives of Bollywood screen idols is evidentially extreme. The Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor caused a storm when she dropped down to a size zero. Last year, her nutritionist brought out a book detailing Kareena's eating regime which led to her size zero. The foreword of the book was written by Kareena herself, endorsing her size zero diet. Suddenly women in India were obsessed with becoming the ultimate size zero. On Western catwalks the size zero is frowned upon. And it seems bizarre that Indian women once celebrated for their natural fuller figures are choosing to be more willowy and waif like in favour of their European counterparts. - 31486

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Ballet Steps Using Ballet Bars

By Sarah Nabila

Ballet is a very tough dance form. A lot of practise has to be put in before one can start performing the basic steps. The most important factors in ballet are the posture and the stance of the dancers.

A typical dancer usually practises to get the correct posture and stance with the help of ballet bars. Using these bars can help beginners to a great extent as it provides a reference for the dancers.

Long screws should be used to fit the bracket on to pieces of wood that is kept on the wall. Brackets should ideally hold barres up to 6 inches in length.

There is a step that which is done with knees bend on two counts. The main important part of this step is the posture of the shoulders and the back which should be straight up.

There are several variations to this step and a beginner should know every variation. This step can be mastered using a ballet bar that can provide support to the dancers. Some ballet moves has eight counts and the knees are fully bent in this case.

Thus the usefulness of the bars are in providing support during exercises and practising the routines when not working with a male partner.

There are several other exercises that can help you develop strength in your feet and ankles. The portable ballet bars comes in handy in such cases as they can be used to for such exercises.

These are some of the important points that should be kept in mind when buying brackets as you do not want to compromise on quality if you want to make your dancing environment conducive for it. - 31486

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Bollywood is an Important Part of Indian Culture

By Sudha Kaviraj

Most people wouldn't even begin to imagine the humble origins of Bollywood. Indian cinema can be attributed to the two great ancient epics of India, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata which have provided a solid foundation for much of India's commercial cinema today which is fondly referred to as Bollywood.

Early Indian cinema took on the role of delivering a distinct moral code particularly when the Mahatma Gandhi-led national movement was at its peak. It was unsurprising that most Bollywood directors and screenplay writers were partial to the Gandhian philosophy. Many directors were passionate about making their films a vehicle for messages of social reform.

During Mahatma Gandhi's era, Indian commercial cinema reflected Mahatma's social concerns. Caste based inequalities were tackled in films like Sujata, Acchut and Haasil. Dil Ek Mandir focussed on the oppression of women in family and society. And most prominent perhaps which seems to be most relevant in Bollywood films today is the disparity between rich and poor in films like Pyaasa, Lawaaris and Jaagte Raho.

In more recent times, Bollywood's appeal has turned commercial. Just as in the West, many people like to read about the lives of their screen idols in Grazia or Heat magazines, in which pages are filled with celebrity diets, fitness regimes and DVDs, fans of Bollywood actors and actresses fall over themselves to emulate the lives of their screen icons whether it be their clothes, makeup, dance styles or workout regimes.

In India the trend to copy the lives of Bollywood screen idols reached fever pitch when the Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor dropped down to a size zero. Last year, her nutritionist brought out a book describing Kareena's size zero diet. The foreword of the book was written by Kareena herself, endorsing her eating regime every couple of hours. Suddenly women in India were obsessed with becoming the ultimate size zero. On Western catwalks the size zero is frowned upon. However, it seems bizarre that Indian women once celebrated for their natural fuller figures are choosing to be pin thin in favour of their European counterparts. - 31486

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