Kahaani 2021 was a great experience for me to enjoy and make new friends, while also raising awareness about the organisation ‘Voice Of World’, which aims to support mentally and physically disabled children in Kolkata, India. This year we had to film Kahaani instead of performing it to a live audience, so it was quite hard to fully show our energy through a video, but it was still a fun experience.

As mentioned in the first post, I was not really fond of this dance because I prefer dancing to upbeat songs rather than slow songs, but I still maintained my motivation for this activity because I knew that this performance is for a good cause as it raises awareness about the mentally and physically disabled children in Kolkata. I attended most of the rehearsals and participated with my full energy and I think this was also motivating for others to stay committed as well because having a good attitude in rehearsals made the environment much better hence making others want to stay motivated as well (LO4).

I think the main thing that affected my commitment levels for this activity was the fact that I didn’t get into the dance I wanted to get into, so I was bummed out by that and that made my attitude towards this Kahaani dance pretty bad at the start, but as I persevered on with this dance I started to enjoy it so I was really happy that I stayed committed to this (LO4).

Here is the final performance:

 

Through Kahaani, I also had the opportunity to work with others and make new friends. I collaborated with other from my grade and a few people from grade 9 and 10, and it was really easy to work with them because we all had the same goal of wanting to make our dance look nice, hence we all put our maximum effort into this dance. I feel like one challenge I faced when working with them was the fact that not all of the others in our group had a background in dance, therefore they needed extra practice to make the dance look good, and this made me quite annoyed because they wasted a lot of our rehearsal time just to go through the same steps we did the previous week. I guess the main way I was able to overcome this challenge was to help those dancers myself because I learnt the steps really quickly and I thought I could help the dance leaders by teaching it to those who didn’t pick up the dance yet. I think this was really effective and helped to make our dance look better at the end (LO5).

I think that collaborating well was really important in making this dance look good because we need to be able to synchronise with one another and know the dance well by teaching it to each other so that our final performance will look good, and I really think that our collaboration was really good and it made our dance look really pretty. In the future, I think that I should keep in mind that not everyone will be at the same level and that some people may need more time for others, and in order to be a good group member, I should be patient with everyone and make sure that everyone is on the right track (LO5).