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    JUST DANCE

    Jul 20, 2021 5 minutes
    Photographs by RAJU RAMAN
    Styling by DEVANSHI TULI

    ESHNA KUTTY

    DANCE FORM: HOOP DANCE

    INSTAGRAM: @ESHNAKUTTY

    “I was drawn to hoop because of how magical it looked.

    I wanted to actualise that feeling and feel the freedom in its movement. I never planned to take up hoop-dancing as a career; I just felt a deep desire to share this art form with other people.

    I guess it was this sense of purpose that led me to where I am today.

    Hooping hails from Native America—it’s a folk dance, of sorts—and was taken up as a fun pastime in America, in the ’50s.

    In India, many people respond to this art form with some confusion. Until 2018, I would often hear comments like, ‘Yeh pipe kyun ghuma rahe ho?’ [Why are you twirling a pipe?].

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