Taking part in Kahaani this year was overall, a really great experience and I felt really proud of myself in taking part and trying something I’ve never done before.
In order to properly participate and take part in the dance, weekly practices were in place at lunch, which like any other student, isn’t exactly I time in which you want to go to practice, but I managed to attend every practice and I didn’t miss a single one. Each practice session we would firstly practice, but we would also have to talk and figure out our formations and sometimes our dance leader would let us interpret her dance moves she showed us and we would be allowed to voice our opinion on which move we thought was best for the dance. I knew that, not having been part of an experience like this before, I needed to make sure I was on top of it and didn’t bail on practices, especially when my friend in the dance did start to skip practice. I really promised to myself that I had to go to each weekly practice, as I missed one because I was overseas, I really needed to attend the rest or I would fall behind. For me, I wasn’t very difficult to participate and try my hardest during practice as I wanted my first ever performance to be something to be proud of(LO4). I’m not a very good performer and sometimes I get stressed and heated under pressure. At the end of our ‘journey’, with the performance 2 weeks later, I had to take a trip to Holland, missing 1 practice, which put me behind a little bit as the new moves I couldn’t really grasp. I asked someone in my group to teach it to me, and I tried my best to practice as much as I could until I memorized it. I have always had a problem with dance as I find it hard to memorize the steps and the order, sometimes during rehearsal I would fall behind or miss a move, but thankfully, during the final performance everything went smoothly, even the extra finale dance as well.
I think I learnt a lot with this new experience that I will take further if I ever do something like this again, using the new skills that I learnt.
