Steel City Bhangra @ Rangla Punjab 2012

[siddyp]

We at SCB had a sick time on stage. Shout out to my team, and how awesome everyone of you are

Constructive criticism please.

Steel City Bhangra @ Rangla Punjab 2012


Side note: Pike Place is the ultimate team bonding experience. Turkish Delight = Amazing.

 

[Rajesh Ravikumar]

GREAT. Enjoyed it a ton - Harman I see you at phumaniya. The news fits look amazing and all of you were swagging! Come back to Pittsburgh, miss you guys

 

[reppinsteelcity]

yay! This is only the beginning of wonderful things. It's very easy to see that you all were having a genuinely great time on stage. I'm super proud, as I am sure you know. Miss you, and hopefully I can congratulate you in person soon. I'll say something more detailed a later date. safe travels home!

 

[Ajay.H]

I had fun watching this, which is a lot to say through a video. Just some random thoughts!

I really like that mid-song prop switch into the chaal, but I wanted it to hit harder. You guys just look really cramped/constrained during the beginning of that kato segment, or people are a little low on energy. It seems the stage isn't used as well as it could be for your formations, though, as in there's a good amount of formations that tend to only take up certain parts of the stage rather than spread out. I think bigger formations, especially with those sick/very bright outfits, would look cleaner and less cramped. I love that move at 8:10. And the girl in red goin nuts. Good shit!

 

[Saab]

Tom B = Yes!

Steel City BONEZ doing work. Sickkk!!!!

 

[Gopi D]

You guys have improved so much! Don't know if there are new dancers on the team but a lot of the dancers seem stronger as well! I thought your guys fits look sickk individually but I kinda feel that they are a little distracting as a whole. Like I feel as if too much is going on (sorry!) Sial koti was fun to watch Formations did seem hard to hit because the stage seemed to small for you guys. Is that why you guys threw your khunde off stage? Just wondering but didn't that give you guys point deductions by the judges?

 

[siddyp]

Formations did seem hard to hit because the stage seemed to small for you guys. Is that why you guys threw your khunde off stage? Just wondering but didn't that give you guys point deductions by the judges?

stage was a bit small for 12, and we made sure with the committee that judges would not dock points for tossing props off stage for any team due to the space limitations.

 

[Gopi D]

Formations did seem hard to hit because the stage seemed to small for you guys. Is that why you guys threw your khunde off stage? Just wondering but didn't that give you guys point deductions by the judges?

stage was a bit small for 12, and we made sure with the committee that judges would not dock points for tossing props off stage for any team due to the space limitations.

oh cool, makes sense!

 

[sumeetj]

literally every time you guys touch the stage i feel like everyones exponentially improved as dancers (this is of course my judgement of the guys because of your FCB performances at bruin/burgh etc) but forreal, alot of the set is the same from AKD but people were killing it on another level now.

there is a tonnnn of creativity sparsed out throughout this wholeee set, which is great because you use that creativity in the right way to make sure you hit alot of traditional segments (you have full use of saaps khundey katos, full jugni segment, full sialkoti, etc).

only real thing i can suggest is that your creativity doesnt hit as hard as it could because you dont emphasize it in the mix. not saying overload with too mayn sword slashes gunshots cats meowing etc, but throwing in a "whoosh" here and there and a few extra bass drops will just make people realize at first glance what you are exactly doing. FIRST glance is all the matters, who cares if people watch your video for the 3rd time and are like "now that i think about it, that sound effect is really unnecessary", because guaranteed the first time they heard it on stage and saw the creative move associated with it, they noticed and were taken back by it.

go to another competition soon (even with the exact same set) with a hyped up mix and you can't NOT place. blowout?

 

[sumeetj]

BTW, i dont means the mix is bad i enjoy the fact it isnt oversaturated with obvious hip hop, etc, i just meant adding in a few extra effects wouldnt hurt, because i didnt want your choreography's creativity to not be maximized

 

[Cherag]

Pankaj I see you!


Sid great job man with this set, right off the back I want to say that the thing with this set and FCB's sets both are the fact that you guys are dancing throughout, I could quite literally go off and list off traditional segments, which I really do appreciate.


One thing I would say is that you should work on all the dancers together, what I mean by this is make sure arms, legs, hands, feet, fingers, and toes are all the same. It will exponentially make your team look better, of course this does take a lot more time, but at the end of the day it will pay off.


I love the intricacy in your choreo as well, while everything was traditional, you guys gave a great twist to a good amount of things, but with creativity, there are always some dancers who have a harder time doing some things. One thing for sure is that you guys should work on getting the knees up as high as possible, you guys have that intricacy, but sometimes the basic legs get short-cut a long with something like arms being straight. Also work on betakan and make sure that everyone is doing it the same way and not one person has difficulty doing a squat with their backs being straight, knees being wide and pointed down, it will make a huge difference. But it did overall look like you guys would have had a better performance had there been more space.


One last suggestion that I have would be to speed up your set so that people want to keep returning to it and be entertained over and over. Speeding up your set for shike and khundey, and a few other segments will ultimately show the judges and viewers that energy is present, I am not saying to make your mix sound like a bunch of chipmunks are singing but just make it so that there is more hype, from your dance, more-so than your mix if that makes sense. And with the mix, great song selections, I am glad to see that there is some mainstream stuff in there but at the same time so many original songs! It's stuff like that, that will definitely make you guys stand out. ]


Vardiyan actually look great in action as well and not just in the plastic wrapping at Romesh's .


All in all I don't want to come off negatively at all, but I really do feel like this/these team(s) can go really far, if such things like those that I have mentioned are tweaked, refined, and improved, you guys will do well. Can't wait to see more!


Cherag

 

[mafzal]

I like your vardiyan! Now watching... haha

 

[Love]

Love the vardiyan, sick job with the set guys. Always fun and refreshing to see you guys perform. Ton of creativity, which is great to see

 

[Cherag]

I scoped out a bunch like that

 

[yraparla]

This set is so sick, creative and unique SCB style. I love you guys so much, can't wait for the rest of the season so SCB can do big things!


Already talk to peeps about stuff so I won't post it here, but basically some people have to step up to match the awesome work of their teammates.

 

[Pavan]

this is great, such a creative set while sticking to a fairly traditional routine. I agree with some of the above posters that it looks cramped at times, but im sure on a normal stage it will look fine. All of your dancers are pretty strong, and i cant wait to see what you guys will bring next time. Great job Sid! Between you guys, FCB, and CMU, Pittsburgh has really transformed its bhangra presence in the last few years.


also, vardiyan are sick, love the argyle.