Memories - Our Dance Practices.

We had a dance group, and we used to dance for almost every function in college. The first time we ever danced was for an onam celebration in our second year, a thirivathira. We all practiced for a couple of days, and a couple of seniors were also there. Navya is the one who would choreograph dances, and we all usually practiced.

Our college fest at that time was Torsades de Pointes; it was an intra-college fest. We wanted to dance something different; I don't remember how it came up, but we decided to dance an oppana for Gannam style. So the plan was to start Oppana with a normal Oppana song and then switch the tract to Gannam style. We were all worried about how it would be taken by others, despite being a flop, yet we practiced, and Aswaty was our bride for oppana. On the day of the performance, ours was the last one. All the dances before us were pretty decent, and we got really scared to perform. At the last moment, a few of our friends even backed off from the dance. Whoever left danced, and to our surprise, it was taken well.

We played either classical, comical, or funny dances for almost every function in college. Dance practices were the best part. Athira would get all hyperactive during dance practices; she would knock on our doors in the evening and make us all practice dance. Navya, Athira, and Gopi have abundant capacity and stamina to practice, and I was the weakest one.

One of us would always make some or other mistake during the dance, and many vedios would become very embarrassing to see later. Most of the dances we played have no pictures or videos. We always tell our friends to take vedios, but Nehla always gets busy cheering us on, as do most of them. Videos of only a very few dances are there with me, one of which was posted on YouTube by Navya, so that's there.

Dance practice, dress shopping, and make-up were the best parts of those memories. We used to go dress shopping in old Bhopal. Classical dance dresses were really hard to get in Bhopal. Some dances were too embarrassing at the time, yet they are pretty funny memories now.

While talking about dances, DJ nights were pretty cool in college. During random DJ nights, we would all dance our asses out. Sometimes I need some intoxication from alcohol to get rid of my inhibitions about dancing or general social anxiety. But yeah, we danced enough; we danced our hell out!