Virginia School Of Bhangra @ DoB 2016

[VA Bhangra]

On behalf of Virginia School of Bhangra, we would like to thank and congratulate the DoB committee for hosting a great competition. Shout out to our wonderful liaison Nina who was always there for us and kicked back with the team Saturday night. Many of the dancers here competed for the first time and had a blast. Special thank you to everyone for their kind and supportive words throughout the weekend and making our first competition unforgettable.




Attached is the link to our video (starts around 1:10)
any and all feedback would be appreciated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRgZNH_oTB0&feature=youtu.be


Pink: Konark and Kirat
Ferozi: Simran and Kiran
Purple: Karan and Naz
Orange: Yasser and Aneet
Yellow: Angad and Adity

Chimta: Anisha

Congrats to SMD, DCBC, and Dcmpaa for a great showing this weekend.

 

[Basim]

Greatly appreciate the quick video upload.


Any way that we could get a track list? I really enjoyed a quick listen/watch. Performance looked fairly clean overall, but the stage lighting was rather disappointing.


Ty in advance,


~ Basim

 

[Simar]

Enjoyed the mix and performance. Good job! Especially to those who performed first time.

I personally did not like the part when shikke were slowed down for dankre around 2:19.

Yellow guy had good energy throughout the set. If you all can match his energy or even exceed it, it will be golden.
Also, lift up your legs higher or kick back all the way to your butt depending on the move, especially when you perform hard hitting moves such as phulka during Tankha.

Just my quick two cents!!

Post the mix.

 

[Howie Magz]

I haven't heard of this team before, but this was a pretty solid first performance. I was impressed by it overall. The cleanliness was definitely there with the exception of a few moments. The purple Jodi stood out to me the most since he wasn't picking up his legs for the majority of the set. The yellow Jodi was dirty. Really good energy and nahkra overall. If the whole team matched up to his energy and form, this team would be golden. I think that the set could be improved in terms of entertainment overall. There needs to be something more hype and exciting. That's my personal opinion. There is definitely a lot of potential from this team. I hope that y'all are going to compete some more moving forward this Bhangra season.

 

[smehta313]

Konark sounds like the badass super-saiyan version of Ronak.


Personally enjoyed the male ferozi's nakhre. good shit with making 10 work with formations (guessing there's a story behind that).


Good luck with your upcoming comps and all.
@howie Magz, I think there may be some affiliation with GMU? Not sure though, just basing it off their vests lol.

 

[A.JAGGI]

Hey guys, ill post the track list in a bit.


But here's a link to the mix.

https://soundcloud.com/harry-jaggi/virginia-school-of-bhangra-declaration-of-bhangra-2016

 

[NiteshK]

Congrats on your first competition as a team guys!
For a first comp and going 10, I think you guys did a solid job.


Shout to Jaggi for having so much swag and murderous energy throughout alongside the Ferozi guy's nakhra being on point. Overall, the set could use some work in having it flow better and thinking more outside of the box than what has been seen before. There are some really good moments that made your performance even better. For example, Jhummer starting with "Tere Naal Nachna" by Jay Sean and Juggy D was starting it hype and then going into Vanjhali Waja- really likes the incorp of the jhummer step from the movie/video (Angrezz or What JVD brought at wbbc) but try not to make it look so forced by some people.


I think you guys started off great and energy/form lacked somewhere in the middle to end but I am sure that those few dancers will grow and those kinks will be worked out.
Cant wait to see you guys at more competitions and kill it!

 

[Mitra]

Just like everyone said Congrats on your performance! You guys have a lot of potential and did well but what probably hurt the most was the stamina. Most people were gased right after saaps. No one was lifting their feet. Jhoomar seemed to give a nice little break to everyone so dhamaal seemed more energetic than the previous segments but even after that besides yellow jodi everyone was tired. I felt like he could have gotten through another set lol. He murked it! It was especially apparent in purple jodi which kinda drew attention making everyone else look alright but the stamina problem was there across the board.


In my opinion, i agree with NiteshK that the transition from Jay Sean to Vanjhali Waja kinda killed the vibe. Also that JVD like step was i think executed well especially by Yellow guy the first time, but i think you guys overdid it again the second time while standing up and then Yellow jodi added a bunch of extra stuff in jhoomar that looked really random and forced and not in sync with the rest of the team. Also, this is my personal opinion, but lots of teams are doing Vanjhali Waja, so maybe choose a different jhoomar song to have your team stand out? Because even though i love that song, every time I see another team do jhoomar to that, Im just like ughhhh, again? Great song though. I feel like in order to do that song this year, your jhoomar really needs to be out there and crazy memorable.


I wasnt a big fan of your guys shikke segment because it was very plain with basic shikke playing. I thought you guys would make up for that with more movement and intricate formations but there wasnt that much movement there either. I thought you guys could have been more creative in this segment especially. I also didnt like the slowing down in Shikke because you guys slowed down kunde into jugni as well and having a slow down in two consecutive segments kinda puts ruins the rhythm.


Maybe there is story on going 10? (just from reading the previous posts) but obviously its harder to make complex formations with 10, but too compensate for that I would increase the choreo difficulty to really bring the power on certain segments and grace on its respective segments.


Awesome job guys! If you have any questions feel free to message me! And good luck for the rest of the season!

 

[VA Bhangra]

Thank you guys for the feedback! Appreciate the support