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Bollywood dance, a colloquial term used to describe choreography in, and inspired by, Hindi film song-and-dance sequences is now a global phenomenon. As Bollywood dance travels the world, it interacts with local contexts and realities. In Nepal, Hindi film consumption coexists with the country's problematically independent relationship to India. Enticed by Bollywood's globalized and glamorous sheen, dance students at the National Dance Centre in Kathmandu struggle to master movements from the latest Bollywood blockbuster. Yet, these students also inherit the historical stigmas of traditional dancer communities, which are renewed by nationally inflected readings of media entertainment. In Nepal, Bollywood dances reveal an unstable border between tradition and modernity, identity and nation, and pollution and purity.
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