This performance was trash. If this is the kind of set that wins UK competitions, the whole evolution of UK bhangra is a complete disappointment. UK started off with shit like “the bhangra heads” then it seems like the entire circuit became obsessed with SGPD and decided that dancing really fast and sloppy was the key to winning competitions. According to the GCC logo, this team is about grace, culture, and creativity; where’s the grace in a performance when everything is done so fast that people are struggling to properly complete moves and hit formations. Move execution is all over the place, dancers are either going all out from the beginning hoping their energy doesn’t run out by the end or dancers are holding back from the beginning because they know their energy will run out by the second half of the set if they don’t. I’m assuming this team displays culture by having a mix made by a high school kid (more on this later). Creativity = adding lots of spins and having an end style segment as a second segment? The mix is so embarrassing they should have just aborted and gone off stage with those behtkaan jandu singha combos at 4:20. I liked the first half of jhoomer but then it was followed up with a crappy second half that makes you completely forget that the first half was entertaining. Jhoomer to daang transition choreo and music are awkward. I liked that GCC experimented with dancing at a different tempo at the beginning of the daang segment, it shows that they understand that slower dancing is possible. Another funny thing about this set is that every time the team holds a formation they exaggerate the hell out of whatever move is being done while they’re holding formation, like “WE’RE NOT RUNNING ACROSS STAGE RIGHT NOW LET’S FLAIL OUR ARMS AS HARD AS WE CAN!!!” I think I see some APD at 7:51, hi
@Danny , miss you bro. I also like the slightest little bit of luddi moves added to the set, really is nice knowing that the team is aware that there is more to bhangra than the typical checklist of bhangra segments. Another energy saving trick thoroughly utilized by GCC in this set, only have select number of dancers perform the really hard moves, and vary the dancers doing the hard moves throughout the set to help everyone conserve energy.
The mix GCC danced to is utterly amateur, it’s full of tropes that got played out 8 yrs ago, and the genius mixer decided to throw some racial slurs in as well. This mix is the biggest mistake made by GCC, despite the flaws with their choreo and execution, a team deserves respect for dancing on stage in front of a crowd. But the mix is so horrid that it destroys any sense of respect you may have for this team. Folk dances don’t exist in a vacuum, they are built on the rhythms and sounds they accompany. This team made the conscious decision to perform on stage to a mess of pitch shifted song segments intermixed with random effects and hip hop elements. I could understand and pick out what songs were being danced to, but the mix of music made no sense, no cohesivity whatsoever. GCC would have been better served removing all vocals completely and dancing to a mix made solely of the underlying bass beats. This is the dissonance; how do you expect to be viewed as caring about the culture when you simultaneously don’t care enough to understand the music and try to present a performance as a cohesive combination of Punjabi music and dance.
Only thing that would have made this set better is if GCC went straight folk and used Plastic Sapps provided by
@hardeep_singh
