By our third year at college, our seniors bade us farewell and the responsibility of carrying Sanskrithi’s legacy was in the hands of our batch. We really missed their guidance, their dedication to the team, their jokes and their presence during our rehearsals. We “wrote” a special song for our seniors, about humaara parivaar Sanskrithi and gave them a little performance on this!
It was time for us to conduct auditions and we got a brilliant team of juniors. We trained them in our signature Dashavataar, along with other dances like Ramayana, Trimurthi and the Fusion dance.
We, along with the juniors, continued these dances at competitions and the awards kept pouring in. But we realized that we had to do something different.
With our juniors, in the new avataar
Along with our juniors, we hired a professional choreographer in our final year. The first lady we hired didn’t appreciate any of the work we had done so far and taught us her version of Contemporary Dance. I’ve forgotten the steps, but I can remember all of us doing her exercises, which included rolling on the floor and jumping and lifting each other and a lot of acrobatic stuff that we were not used to!
Within a week or so, we had had enough of this and replaced her with another choreographer. That’s when we learnt “Kshatriya Dharma”. We were going to perform that during AtmaTrisha but due to the rain, our performance was cancelled. The team did perform it at a few fests later, but it failed to evoke the kind of magic that Dashavataar did.
Soon our juniors learnt a few more dances and Sanskrithi was again back in form. Kudos to them for keeping it up, continuing the winning streak and for getting wonderful opportunities to perform in India and all over the world! J
I’m sure that all of you have your own memories of our team too... feel free to share them here :)
Four entries on one day! Quadruple bonanza. =D An interesting read, as always.
ReplyDeleteThank you, once again :) I had written the whole thing together, then divided it into parts.
ReplyDeletenice one! :)
ReplyDeletealways been a big fan of sanskriti n i probably at one time even knew most of the dashavathara steps.. :P
That dance was indeed LEGEN...DARY!!
Thanks :) Yes, it definitely was!
ReplyDeleteThats one huge compilation SRK alias sunshine :P Nice work...For the next 24 hours of my life I assure that I will keep thinking of those days :). Did u know that my new team is called Sukruthi? named after u guys :)
ReplyDeleteReally nice shweta! I have my own versions of these written down in my journal.. was nice to read someone's else memories, so many incidents which I had totally forgotten about! :) Times spent with the Sanskrithi team was definitely quite the highlight of my college life too!
ReplyDeleteThanks Raghu and Sahithya! :) Good to know that this has brought back some fond memories!
ReplyDeleteRaghu, yes you told me about your new team.