Man, all the respect the in the world to you guys for going out and doing your set, your way. There's some risks taken here, and some creativity, and a lot of passion and excitement. I can see why this was a crowd favorite.
My main critique for you guys is that the choreography was very, very standard. And formations were not very prevalent in the first half of the routine, and still very simple in the second half. Plus points were cleanliness and energy. Just ripped this performance, but the set itself I think could have been better
Just some thoughts as I watch this:
- the farhan khan epic instrumental was well done, very impactful.
- Light up saaps, probably best-made light up saaps i've seen. Awesome start to the section in darkness. But you just turn them on and then move into a circle!! Why not do more? Because frankly once the lights come on the saap section is very average. Do more than just lean, why not some actual steps, even if just in place.
- Saaps are well executed, nice and clean but very standard. No unique moves that really leave an impression, good chunk of time spent in lines (either lines of 3 or horizontal staggered lines or a V).
- Nice intro with breaking daangs off, but then you're left with very thin daangs, which kinda looked amateurish (and lot's of teams do it I know, andthey all look the same way to me) I would recommend atleast ramaals on them in the future to give it that extra flair.
- great lalkaars, I could hear them on video which is impressive, energy is great
- Jhummar, the whole 'flower' from guy to girl thing has been done so often that this just doesn't hit for me. When all guys teams start doing it with their own joris, I think the effect is just lost for co-ed teams (but that's just personal)
- Phumania is nice, really clean, lots of movement, it was refreshing given how slow the rest of the set has been movement wise.
- 7:17 is just a hugeeee let down. There's a ton of build up and the impact of this just is lost. I kind of compare to same song with SCB with the drop into lehria. There's just a more aesthetic value to their movement. I also appreciate the formation moving across stage and the different steps used, side taari etc, but I think if the people who were left behind had just stayed still and gotten low it would have looked better than moving so much and then moving in place, you know? Moving in spot like a march doesn't look good. Not a fan of this segment, but...
- dubstep, won me over. loved it, perfect highlight for him, everyone else is doing choreo. His reentrance into bhangra was just so clean, like he turned off a switch...so sick, so so sick.
- Not fan of the execution of some dancers on the ending (hate to call em out, but mostly the girls), but props for not doing a guys-line and girls-line. I like the way it looks with jodis side by side instead of by gender
This is honestly the first Cornell set in past 2-3 years that I've actually enjoyed from beginning to end. Dancers were all clean, something interesting every minute or so, mix was sick! It was a great performance, definitely should be proud.
You guys deserve the same attention and applause of any team that placed, congrats guys!
