Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Paan-Paan

(The can-can (more correctly not hyphenated, as in the original French: cancan) is regarded today primarily as a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, that hearkens back to the fashions of the 1890s. The main features of the dance are the lifting up and manipulation of the skirts, with high kicking.......)


(photo by Kavi Arasu)
Paan-Paan,
the dance,
bitter sweet
expressions of art,
as they stand,
in formation,
clad in green
and
a silver headdress,
accesorized with
handheld
red pom poms....
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The kick happens
after you eat the paan.

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