Bengali Dance
Well, this strange quasi-Indian piece came as part of a very rushed job. As always, the background details are fuzzy, but I think there’s a Chinese-produced dance performance that’s premiering in Bangladesh. For whatever reason the Bollywood piece the troupe was supposed to dance to couldn’t be used anymore (copyright issues?), but the choreography was already all set in place, so I was given their original piece and had to structurally match it beat by beat: same tempo, same phrases lengths, same breakdowns. This was especially difficult for the beginning given the rhythmically amorphic intro of the song.
I’m slightly embarrassed that I had to resort to lots of Middle Eastern musical idioms to fill in the piece, but the troupe needed it in one day, and in the end they didn’t seem to mind.
