I chose a bhangra class, the energetic Punjabi folk dance traditionally associated with the harvest and familiar from ...
For the children of immigrants, claiming an American identity can feel like walking a tightrope stretched between the culture of their parents and the unfettered ways of the United States. In ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Manpreet Toor, who has found success on YouTube and TikTok, reflects a new wave of Indian diaspora dance. By Marina Bolotnikova Growing up in ...
A video of a dance group grooving to the Bhangra version of a famous track of Sidhu Moosewala to pay him a tribute has gone massively viral online. The video shared on Instagram accompanies a caption, ...
Mirza became a superfan. She attended seven or eight competitions. She wrote a treatment for a bhangra-themed film. She became a playwright, met another playwright, and then, when the two of them ...
Growing up in California, Manpreet Toor remembers being exposed to bhangra — a lively Punjabi dance genre that is performed widely in the Indian diaspora — in her parents’ garage. “In Punjabi ...
In March, Toor, a leading figure in the Bay Area’s vibrant South Asian dance scene, and her fellow choreographer Preet Chahal paid tribute to Sikander. In a YouTube video with the look of a retro home ...