can doja cat dance?
Under the swami ship of Alice Coltrane, Doja Cat donned headscarves and sang bhajans at the temple, but she didn’t continue this practice for long because of restrictive Hinduism norms. So, she moved away from there and joined breakdancing classes. While she was in high school, she became a part of a professional pop-locking troupe and took part in several dance performances all around Los Angeles. Pop locking is a very funky dance style that was first developed in the 1960s. Later, she took singing lessons from her aunt, who was a singer by profession. This helped her get into a performing arts high school. Doja Cat once said that Bharatnatyam is a highly emotive classical dance form and is more about angles and forming shapes with your body. Check out this Instagram post shared by 'brownhistory' where you can see the young Doja Cat at the ashram in the last picture.
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Growing up with her mother and grandmother being painters, Doja was highly inspired by the striking visual style. “A lot of that inspired me to take up fashion and visual, experimental things,” she shared saying that her mom was a full-on “hippie from the ’60s” who was always a step ahead in supporting Doja.
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Doja started taking dance lessons at the age of five and interestingly it was with the Indian classical dance style Bharatanatyam. She expressed, “I feel like it taught me to be emotive and control my body in a special way.” Doja’s family then moved to an ashram in California from New York and served their Swamini late jazz great Alice Coltrane.
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The diva whose birth name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini then moved back to New York to learn break dance and kickstart her career into what she is doing today. In another interview, Cat revealed, "Indian classical dance Bharatanatyam; its very emotional and its a lot about angles like creating shapes with your body.”
This popular classical dance originating from Tamil Nadu was considered a sacred dance form and a part of religious worship before the Britishers arrived in India. Performed by devadasi, who sang and danced as a form of prayer and temple service, this form was originally called "Sadir Natyam."
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Indiatimes
Growing up with her mother and grandmother being painters, Doja was highly inspired by the striking visual style. “A lot of that inspired me to take up fashion and visual, experimental things,” she shared saying that her mom was a full-on “hippie from the ’60s” who was always a step ahead in supporting Doja.
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Doja started taking dance lessons at the age of five and interestingly it was with the Indian classical dance style Bharatanatyam. She expressed, “I feel like it taught me to be emotive and control my body in a special way.” Doja’s family then moved to an ashram in California from New York and served their Swamini late jazz great Alice Coltrane.
Indiatimes
The diva whose birth name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini then moved back to New York to learn break dance and kickstart her career into what she is doing today. In another interview, Cat revealed, "Indian classical dance Bharatanatyam; its very emotional and its a lot about angles like creating shapes with your body.”
This popular classical dance originating from Tamil Nadu was considered a sacred dance form and a part of religious worship before the Britishers arrived in India. Performed by devadasi, who sang and danced as a form of prayer and temple service, this form was originally called "Sadir Natyam."
Trivia time: Rapper Doja Cat is also an ace Bharatnatyam dancer! In a 2021 interview with Billboard, the 'Say So' hitmaker revealed she began learning the basics of Bharatnatyam at the age of five.
