Ooty summer festival

Was conducted by Niligiris from 6th may 2010 to 16th may 2010. It was a 10 day festival where various dance and music schools were a part of it. It was not a competition as such but just a colourful show that happens every summer. Our dance school Natyanjali was also a part of it. We were given the slot for the last of the festival. Hearing this we all were a little worried if we will have the presence of a good crowd. This only happen to us as we had planned to do a new production for them and we dint want our debut to be bad or have less crowd. When Sir told this to us all we said was “Sir we have the capacity to grab the crowd with our music as fits a garden we are sure people will come running once the music starts playing.”

The new production was “RAAS” known as Raasleela.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL0ECyVCzN0The very ownhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif game of our lord Krishna where he has his own way to impress the Gopika’s, he stays with each and every Gopika and satisfy them. The choreography had come out so very well that all of us were very enthusiastic and excited of our debut. This item is more of expression and emotion more than the dance in the beginning. The dance energy comes only in the end part of it. The beats and words move very fast here.

The costumes arrived just the day we were leaving to ooty and the excitement we had to see the new costumes is not definable. In spite of all the excitement we had we could not see the costumes that day as it was packed and moved to the bus already. We had to hold back our emotions and excitement. Holding back the eagerness we got into the bus and the journey began at 9 pm. As usual we started playing our game Literature. It goes on all night without sleep. Sleeping in a bus is the least thing we will do when we are with Natyanjali. Its very hard sleep never happens. The ony time we slept was when we stopped at Bandipur forest when the gates were not open we had to stop and wait for the gate to open.

Next morning after the arrival in Ooty, we were all set for shopping. The first thing that flashed our mind when it came to Ooty was Chocolates. On the way to shopping we found our photos and banners inviting for our show. We were a little relaxed after this view. We were also happy and proud of ourselves that we had publicity and will get audience. We were so energetic even after the sleep less journey that we wanted to “Break the stage for RAAS”.
We had the best time shopping. Dance performances are just not performances it includes site seeing, fun and shopping.

After all the heavy shopping we quickly get ready and were set for the show. We started off with the Pushpanjali as usual and continued with other items. But when it came Raas audience were high. They were whistling. Especially when it came to the end i could see people dancing side stage. This is the best dancing experience and the audience reaction we have ever got.


Finally our debut was a grand success. With great satisfaction we returned to the bus. As a part of celebration we started playing literature again till we returned back to Bangalore. As soon as we returned back to Bangalore our beds were ready in Sir’s house and all of us fell flat on the bed.