**UB Bhangra @ Muqabla 2012 Third Place **

[preet585]

UB Bhangra @ Muqabla 2012

 

[Mr. Mankiran]

If you guys are wondering why the lights turn off for so long after the dubstep and why they turned off at the end before we finished, it was an error by the lighting crew. Criticism is welcomed, we are trying to Improve in every way.

 

[yraparla]

Definitely pay attention to form, and I don't mean that as "omg you're not doing it right", but from an aesthetic sense I think you guys would benefit from slowing you're set down so execution could be more clean and synchronized.


Dancers tended to cut moves short to transition to the next step, so arms are never long/wide they always are in this box close to the body because there's often no time to transition if they go out wide.


Also, unrelated to the performance and not a criticism of the placings or anything....I still find it odd that UB can compete at a UB event (it's not just bhangra, even the fusion team dances right). I haven't seen that since GW+Blowout and that doesn't happen anymore because it became a consensus that it's just unfair for everyone involved.

 

[abhij95]

Congrats on placing
Some of the moves were not original for example Bhangra Empires spin move, Furteelay Shokeens Cradle, and Cornells dubstep hip hop

 

[Psant]

I think you guys should slow down some parts and emphasize on transitions a little more. Good potential though!

 

[Mr. Mankiran]

Definitely pay attention to form, and I don't mean that as "omg you're not doing it right", but from an aesthetic sense I think you guys would benefit from slowing you're set down so execution could be more clean and synchronized.


Dancers tended to cut moves short to transition to the next step, so arms are never long/wide they always are in this box close to the body because there's often no time to transition if they go out wide.


Also, unrelated to the performance and not a criticism of the placings or anything....I still find it odd that UB can compete at a UB event (it's not just bhangra, even the fusion team dances right). I haven't seen that since GW+Blowout and that doesn't happen anymore because it became a consensus that it's just unfair for everyone involved.

It's always been that way at Muqabla. The judges are fair and the local teams aren't given any special treatment by the organizers of the event. Although we are friends, we still need ID to check in and register, audition videos, packet registration and fees handed in on time, etc.

This is only the second time in 19 years that UB Bhangra has placed at Muqabla. If frequently participating teams truly thought it was unfair, it would have been voiced by now.

Thanks for the criticism though guys, we are a fairly young team with several newbies to bhangra and need all the help we can get.

 

[HdBrar]

All in all, our team is still fairly young. This is the second year the team has been revitalized from nothing and we are def taking steps into the right direction.


We honestly were trying to hit on many key problems we had in the past, like being in sync, execution of the moves, and just general hype/excitement. I think we definitely touched bases on those things. I'm not saying we have perfected it, but we have definitely improved a whole lot.


As far as competitions are concerned, Muqabla is run by the Indian SA of UB. As a team, we are affiliated with UB, but not the ISA. We competed as a separate group, and had to go through the same processes as any other team would have registering and preparing for the competition.


As Mr. Mankiran said, UB hasn't placed in Muqabla for a LONG time now. This was the second time UB placed, last time was in '06-'07, I believe.


Anyway, we would love to hear some constructive feedback from you guys. The only way anyone can improve is to first see what our strengths/weakness are.

 

[Kartik]

Always great to see younger dancers from collegiate teams step up and take their team in the right direction. Glad to see your improvement, keep it up, and congrats on the placing!

 

[Mr. Mankiran]

Thanks a lot bro, we appreciate it, we missed Cornell Bhangra at muqabla this year, hope to see Cornell come back.

 

[Anik915]

Impressed with how this team is progressing
Great vardiyaan - looks vibrant on stage!


Keep it up!

 

[fthomas1]

All in all, our team is still fairly young. This is the second year the team has been revitalized from nothing and we are def taking steps into the right direction.


We honestly were trying to hit on many key problems we had in the past, like being in sync, execution of the moves, and just general hype/excitement. I think we definitely touched bases on those things. I'm not saying we have perfected it, but we have definitely improved a whole lot.


As far as competitions are concerned, Muqabla is run by the Indian SA of UB. As a team, we are affiliated with UB, but not the ISA. We competed as a separate group, and had to go through the same processes as any other team would have registering and preparing for the competition.

I saw you guys perform at Muqabla last year as well as this year and you guys have improved considerably! I agree, you guys are definitely taking steps in the right direction.


ISA and the judges may have been impartial but in my opinion the home crowd has a huge impact on performance on stage.


Regardless, great performance compared to last year. I think the 3rd place was well deserved. Congratulations guys!

 

[Mr. Mankiran]

All in all, our team is still fairly young. This is the second year the team has been revitalized from nothing and we are def taking steps into the right direction.


We honestly were trying to hit on many key problems we had in the past, like being in sync, execution of the moves, and just general hype/excitement. I think we definitely touched bases on those things. I'm not saying we have perfected it, but we have definitely improved a whole lot.


As far as competitions are concerned, Muqabla is run by the Indian SA of UB. As a team, we are affiliated with UB, but not the ISA. We competed as a separate group, and had to go through the same processes as any other team would have registering and preparing for the competition.

I saw you guys perform at Muqabla last year as well as this year and you guys have improved considerably! I agree, you guys are definitely taking steps in the right direction.


ISA and the judges may have been impartial but in my opinion the home crowd has a huge impact on performance on stage.


Regardless, great performance compared to last year. I think the 3rd place was well deserved. Congratulations guys!

The crowd definitely has a huge impact on the performance on stage, but its up to the team to elicit a crowd response. If the team on stage is lame, then the crowd won't go crazy; being completely honest, it was dead silent for most of our dance last year and its because the dance was nothing to get hyped over.

Teams like Rochester, Cornell, and this year BU got huge crowd responses and they certainly weren't the home/local teams.

 

[Karan P Singh]

Nice best performance of ub bhangra up to date

 

[PrabhR]

Definitely improved from last years performance, form and formations still need work but besides that not bad