Performance

Our big debut is over, and I was very happy to share my new talents with my friends and family on Friday. We've been working so hard these last few weeks to pull something together, and I was apprehensive up until the second we walked off stage. I want to congratulate everyone for working really hard, and for putting forth the creativity that was needed to design our performance. I also thought that is was really cool how we integrated all of the things that we learned in class like the bharatanatyam steps in the begging seen, the different Chucs that we learned along with the Siya vararam song, the mudras of the different characters, as well as bits from the story of the Ramayana. In particular I thought that Elie did a really good job being Ravana and really involving the audience in the scene. I talked to some of my friends and my cousin afterward, and they really enjoyed the ridiculousness of her character. At the same time, I think that it was good that we made our debut at the international dance showcase, because there was no other dance group that performed anything remotely similar to ours. This far into the semster I don't even think calling our scene a dance gives it proper justice. On Friday night we made our own music, we danced, we acted, and we sang. The skills and instruments we brought forth to show to the school and the Williamsburg community was more like a grand cultural experience, something much greater than we ever thought it could be.