Soul Sister

    Trigger: Where do we draw the line between teaching children an art form like dance and deciding what is child appropriate behavior Birdy dance or body dance? Recently I have attended a function in which a 12 year child was performing a dance that required her to grind her hips and her bosom as though she was 21 years old. The crowd going crazy not at her dolled up face but at the fact that a young girl could do those moves with the panache of authenticity. No doubt she was a very graceful dancer. But this act disturbed me. There was something that wasn’t right.     I wondered was it wrong? Was I being puritanical in my thinking? Should young children be made to perform ‘sexy’ dances? It’s not only this young girl but with summer vacations around the corner. Young children register for a lot of dance classes and summer camps. It’s in such occasions that young children end up being taught in the guise of Bollywood dancing, some very ridiculous moves. More because these are