Music gets the best out of me.

Neel encouraged me, I brainwashed art and three of us joined Shaimak Davar’s summer funk dance classes. Neel the experienced one was placed in the advance batch. Myself and art the starters were taken into the beginner’s batch.

Pre-PS
-Nope, no loss of those extra kilos.
-Only our wallet lost all the weight .
-Yes, there were lots of cute boys.
-All of them were half our age.

Probably only our instructor Lester and his Assistant Bhavana (who talks in pancham sur ) were “just” elder to us. For our love for dancing we decided to let go of the luxury of un-hectic schedule. For two consecutive weeks every day we rushed  from office, escaping the early evening meetings and my boss’s just in time performance improvement discussions. Because of our lazy laid back attitude (read clever) we always reached 10 minutes late .The first 15 minutes was consumed by strenuous exercise and weird +funny warm up sessions which pulled and twisted every muscle in our already rhythmic bodies.
The dance forms we learned were- Hip-Hop, Jazz , Bollywood , Rock n Roll, etc . More practice to remember the steps took precedence over the last day assigned for Salsa.

The beginner’s batch majorly involved kids mostly the 10th class board exam pass out crowd. Few of them had this – richy rich, I am beautiful, big car, Banjara hills residence, posh lifestyle, powerful parent-attitude. The other few seemed more interested in their –schooly, mushy, shy, first crush,-girl meets boy and vice versa type activities. while the other few were quite chill, new age –we love increasing our network and love making friends. The best dancers of our group Mr. Am and Miss R really had oodles of energy levels, good posture, and the correct expressions to boast about. Am was the coolest and cutest of all .But as kids love seeking attention he kept on flaunting “ I am from IIT batch (read coaching classes)” as if he is going to be next big thing to happen to IIT…..When will people come out of the tag and the brand world?Anyways on the whole our batch was nice and happening.Oh! btw, nobody was ready to believe we were working .They all thought we were college goers .

The Advance batch gives me all spice to write about. It had -> hot chics ,the famous one ->Simjeet. Bi**** ->the famous one to whom Neel fondly called as “nakchadee” ,the instructor’s pet->Miss Le, Miss Le’s pets ,some unnoticeable, non-existent types our age group guys , one 50+ Uncle and others. Of controversies ->there were wardrobe malfunctions, cat fights, dislike for Lester, buttering Lester, the exposing costume issue and all. One thing in common was, all were fundoo dancers.Simjeet dominated the stage because of her expressive moves (few can read “figure”). Apparently our Neel became really good friend of hers. But she kept on cribbing as her talent went unnoticed because of Simjeet , positioned next to her in the dance sequence .

When, the most good natured and handsome guy asked me to join Salsa classes, I refused (I regret).When our Mr. fresher asked me to dance with him in the fresher’s party I refused (I regret) and now we get to dance with a partner who is half my age and half my height. Hehe ….poor me or poor kid ?

Stage performance is not new to me .My Analysis1 says -In pre- school we are fearless, in school we have stage fear (when the heart pumps loud), in college we have crowd fear (where any wrong move can give you a humiliating thumbs down) and later people grow par any fear with some residues of shyness of dancing in front of the people they are close to.
All’s well that ends well. The D day venue was Shilparamam.Unfortunately the same day I was down with fever and cold (which was later transferred to art in more severe form). There were so many groups from different centers of all possible age groups and journo performing .Off course the 0-4 yrs bachha party batch was the most entertaining.Beginners group performed on Music makes me lose control-Missy Elliot, Hip-Hop .Advance danced to the tunes of Dil Hara-Tashan, Bollywood style. Both were success.

Analysis2:On stage in a group dance if you are the only one dancing right and rest all are wrong, you still appear to be wrong -the spoil sport. And then there is always a case when you are actually wrong and so you appear, but the twist is again if you are placed in the center of the group, to audience it might appear to be a part of the choreography. As I was in front row i experience all above.
The one who can be a rocker in a DJ may not be as good here. One thing we learned is Shaimak dancing style is a group effort which requires lot of synchronization. The focus is not on an individual, its the forms and steps of all, woven together to create conjoined screen presence of art. High, powerful and well defined movements, with bright & smiling faces is what, required. During the classes we were exposed to all kinds especially of our inclination > Latin, Bollywood style matka n jhatkas with some pinches of Shakira moves . All’s well that goes well.

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Of Hermitage.
Keep the headphones on!and the volume full .In the video there nothing much to see though .The audio has all the effect: D. Especially the climax.

There will be around 20 souls out there who will be happy (& Grinning) after seeing this , kada?
I still don’t blame or sad for those three beasts attacking me , but still…. Badmash I didn’t expect this from u .Thanks heaven I dint dropped my new Camera .
PS1: yes, I remember there has to be a post on the Dance classes.
PS2: Moreover my show is also done .Yes, we did forget the steps in front of 100+ audience. But there is a twist in that .
PS3: Currently listening “ My heart is beating “-Jalsa.
PS4: Currently reading “Dan Brown –Angels and Demons”.
PS5: Also started with my first Mills & Boons...I knw its too late …..
PS6: May not continue the MB ,is boring…
PS7: Gosh!!why is it taking so much time to upload the video?.
PS7: Yawn ….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
PS8: Chao!
PS9: God it’s still not done, zzzzzzzzzzz, its more that two hours .We even attended a demo.
PS10: hmmm, fine some conversion is needed from .avi to .flv to reduce the file size.
PS11: Shortest posts of all-claps, kodus etc....