University Dance Team Auditions 2011-12 !!

Even before I had joined NUJS, one of the events that I really, really looked forward to was the university dance team audition, because for people who are in love with dance, being there on stage at every opportunity, is all that matters. So that is what I am going to talk about.

Well, I had known I would perform at the audition, but what I had not known was that I would be a part of the Cultural Committee (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cultural-Committee-NUJS/154440831233788?ref=ts) itself and hence, not only was I going to participate in the audition, but I was also going to help organise it! The meetings were held, rules were framed, the date set (making sure it was nowhere near the contracts tutorial !!), the auditorium requisitioned and the notices put up. Then there were things like arranging for the judge, deciding on the “guest performances”, deciding on the duties like registration, judgement, etc. The posters for the audition also had to be made. And finally, the ‘noojies’ had to be coaxed into coming for the audition because for some incomprehensible reason, we just don’t do a thing until we really have no other choice left....

There were three days to go for the audition, everything was set, people were practicing and I still had no clue about my performance. On the day of the audition, after frantic last minute music editing and practicing, I settled down in the auditorium with my friends. I was up at number 7. The programme started with the welcoming of the judges and the reading of rules by the emcee for the evening – Divyanshu. Considering the applause and the comments (“oh, he is so cute”, “he’s adorable” and the like) from the audience, I have no doubts about the popularity of the emcee ;) (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1107352875 – his facebook profile, just for you ;) The auditions were held for both eastern and western categories, with Stephen as the external judge for the event (He is a Dance Instructor/Choreographer at Crewk'd: https://www.facebook.com/crewkd) 

The evening ended with a rocking performance on “Aaja Nachle” by Khushi Kejriwal followed by a duet performance by Gayathri and Modhulika on “Bedardi Raja”, which was undoubtedly superb and left everyone wanting for more. We even made the judge dance for us on stage.

But the best performance of the evening by a huge margin was definitely Divyanshu grooving to “Chamak Challo” ;) :P

The results were announced after a few days.

And the team is :

Eastern Team:

Sushruti Tripathi, Apoorva Sundar, Anushka Shetty, Alphonsa Jojan and Neeti Bhatt.

Western Team:

Nivedita Udupa, Ambika Wadehra, Sadhvi Sood, Avichal Mathur and Utkarsh Meena.

.............................    Sushruti  Tripathi  :)