Also a big shout out to all our friends and family for all their support! Riiiiiiight! With that done i think its back to letting you guys know a bit about ourselves...
The Desi Bravehearts are an exclusive Scottish based dance group who specialise in Bollywood/fusion dancing. We are trained intensively by mumbai-based choreographer Pratap Shetty, who is made famous through programmes such as Dan
cing Queen and Naach Baliye 3 (choreographer for Rakhi Sawant & Abhishek). He has furthermore worked on bollywood films for example Sanjay Leela Bansali’s film Saawariya and has now made his mark in Awards and stage shows nationally and internationally. As for the Bravehearts, we currently consist of women and men of Scottish, Indian, Pakistani, Greek, German, Malaysian and Chinese backgrounds. With this cultural diversity emerges a wide range of dancing styles among us such as belly, scottish, rnb, hip-hop, greek and indian dance types such as bhangra, bangladeshi and kathak, which only adds to the flava of our fusion dances. So much so that a well established newspaper gave us our slogan for which we use to this day-
"The Desi Bravehearts, Born in Scotland, Raised on Irn-Bru!"
Our past performances comprise of:
* Glasgow mela
* Bradford Mela
* India & Scottish Business Forum, Edinburgh
* Scottish Southside Festival, Glasgow
* The Hall With it All - Peace Arts, Glasgow
* Independence Day, Glasgow
* Charity Performance, Carlisle
* Diwali Celebration, Belfast
* The Scottish Sportsperson of the Year Awards, Glasgow
* The Scottish Asian Business Person of the Year Awards, Glasgow
* Chinese New Year Celebrations, Glasgow
* Festival of Colours Holi Show, Belfast
* Mumbai Festival - Mubai, India
* Festival of Colours, Belfast
* Holi Show, Woodside Hall, Glasgow
* Vaisakhi 2009 show, Armadillo, Glasgow
* The Southside Fesival 09', Glasgow
* Belfast Mela
* Edinburgh Mela
* Pan African Arts Event supporting Black History Month
* Diwali on the Square (George Square) 09' Glasgow
* Diwali and Samhain Festival 09', Belfast
* Shaheed Bhagat Singh Remembrance 10', Glasgow
* Knochengorrech Festival
* Scottish Chambers of Commerce Annual Event
* Bollywood Charity Night - East Kilbride
* Scottish Museum's Celebration of Diversity
* Handover of the Commonwealth from Delhi to Glasgow
Plus many more to come!
* Our highlight so far has been performing three consecutive shows to crowds of up to 10,000 people at the well renowned Mumbai festival in India. The atmosphere and the audience were absolutely amazing!-much love to Mumbai from all the DBs. As for the future,the DBs hope to be flying the Scottish flag overseas once again . . . so watch this space! :)
If there's anything I've missed out or you would like to know more then feel free to ask any of the admins or the Desi Bravehearts, who would be more than happy to help. Thanks once again for your support :),
