“Two Days. A hundred Students. An instructor who has been there, done the beat. The result – perhaps the most fun workshop of the season! Dhamaal – the pre-Navratri celebrations of the Bhawanipur Education Society College (BESC) was just around the corner, and the workshop was an effort to connect students with the tradition, to help them muster the moves that are aimed at establishing a connect with the divine even as the community welcomes the Goddess to her abode in an ecstatic frenzy of rhythm and dance.
The most notable factor was the participation of non-Gujarati students, whose enthusiasm had to be seen to be believed. Exposed to the pulsating rhythm and learning about the meaning behind the apparently innocuous dance moves, it was they, who ensured that the Garba was done in its truest form – transcending all barriers as an inclusive, community performance.
The workshop started at the most basic level where the difference between the Garbi (male) and the Garba (female) was spelled out before they were gradually taken through the motions, their moves becoming more complex with each passing round as their mind-body co-ordination got in sync with the beats. The workshop also trained the students to wield their Dandiyas (sticks) and replicate the triumph of good over evil.
Dharmesh Bhimani was the Chief Guest. The workshop was organised by the Flames Collective of the BESC.
This report has been filed by Shakshi Shaw with camera person Mayank Kashyap of the Expressions Collective of the BESC.
December 3rd, 2019. Society Hall. The Mukherjee Commission, which was constituted to look into the matter of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s “alleged” whereabouts during its investigation had comprehensively rubbished the Gumnami Baba theory, which propounded that Netaji had not, in fact died in the plane crash as is stated, and had lived in disguise in …
“Sometimes music can be so beautiful that words seem to fall short. The truth is that your vocabulary falls short from time to time, and there are tons of words to describe music that can work like a perfect pitch.” The Bhawanipur Education Society College Crescendo collective organised an intra-college event “Crescendo’s Got Talent “which …
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The Internal Complaints Committee of the college in collaboration with the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of the college organised a seminar on “Changing Face of Gender Equality in Indian Perspective ” on the 29th of April 2022 in the second-floor auditorium of the college. Ms. Salony Priya, the Founder Director of UMMEED Counseling and Consulting …
One, Two, Three, Four everybody on the floor!
“Two Days. A hundred Students. An instructor who has been there, done the beat. The result – perhaps the most fun workshop of the season! Dhamaal – the pre-Navratri celebrations of the Bhawanipur Education Society College (BESC) was just around the corner, and the workshop was an effort to connect students with the tradition, to help them muster the moves that are aimed at establishing a connect with the divine even as the community welcomes the Goddess to her abode in an ecstatic frenzy of rhythm and dance.
The most notable factor was the participation of non-Gujarati students, whose enthusiasm had to be seen to be believed. Exposed to the pulsating rhythm and learning about the meaning behind the apparently innocuous dance moves, it was they, who ensured that the Garba was done in its truest form – transcending all barriers as an inclusive, community performance.
The workshop started at the most basic level where the difference between the Garbi (male) and the Garba (female) was spelled out before they were gradually taken through the motions, their moves becoming more complex with each passing round as their mind-body co-ordination got in sync with the beats. The workshop also trained the students to wield their Dandiyas (sticks) and replicate the triumph of good over evil.
Dharmesh Bhimani was the Chief Guest. The workshop was organised by the Flames Collective of the BESC.
This report has been filed by Shakshi Shaw with camera person Mayank Kashyap of the Expressions Collective of the BESC.
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