Monday, November 27, 2017

Shake Off the Silence: Day 1

When we first decided to do a flash mob, I thought that it would be a bit difficult, but not entirely impossible or time-consuming.
This was the first assumption that broke down about a week into trying to plan one.
We started off with an open call for dancers; which led to a rather large Whatsapp group of strangers we didn't even know, who would offer countless opinions but would not reply once on having asked whether they would come for practise.
Our first practise was scheduled for 2PM. Everyone turned up at 4.
An inane amount of begging, warning and policing later, after 15 days we had a semblance of a dance, with songs having been edited multiple times to accomodate multiple requests. Again, we faced the problem of people being very opinionated on virtual spaces, but refusing to turn up when it came to physical presence. I was almost on the verge of 1) tearing my hair out, and 2) doing the more sane thing and telling the team the flash mob wasn't going to happen. We had practises where not more than 3 people had come, at that come very late, and promise me vehemently that they could not come for the next practise.
And then my saviour came in the form of eight wonderful girls: our interns from WCC.
After an unfortunate episode with the original group, we had to disband it, and I called one of our interns (who was especially excited to dance) to inform her that there would not be as many as we had thought. She took it into her hands to hustle up as many of her own friends from WCC, and soon we had 12 dancers: when I had originally hoped for 6 (and expected 4). From resigning myself to the idea that there might be a meagre amount of dancers, to actually finding my excitement again because of the wonderful girls of WCC (who managed to learn the orginal steps, choreograph another part, and manage excellent formation in 5 days!), the planning of this has been nothing short of a nightmare turned into a dreamlike miracle.
And we finally did it!

Watch it here:



-
Malavika

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