Kalakriti is an interschool dance competition which allows students express themselves and compete agaisnt differnt school with different types of arts showcased. I was abel to participate in the western dance group under the category of U-14-U-18. I have been participating in Kalakriti for 203 year consecutively allowing me to delve into dance as an art form to a great extent. This competion was not onyl about hwo we performed and left, but about the hardwork and team work behind the performance. We were able to collbratively work on the performance and take feedback over how to improve, what to change and overall improve the perfomance. This competition my dedication towards the art form and how it allows me to physically challenge myself with countinous practice and changes in my style through feedbakc over the same.

LO 1: Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth

I was able to identyf my strenght and weakness with the constant feedbakc provided over countinous practice. Through the dance we were collrbatively able to identify how eveyrone one of us were performing hte same step with a different style and different energy and weren’t able to cordinate to a great extent. Here, my individual steps weren’t as important as how teh team looked collbrativley throuhgout the dance performance. This was one the most significant areas of growth that we worked upon after identifying our weakness. We were able to develop our skills while trying to match our style and energy, at the same time cordinating ourselves to make it look like a effective perfomance. This was achieved to an extent since we still ended up having the same problems during the actual performance acting as a area of growth to a major extent.

LO 2: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process

With rigourous pracitce and extra time alloted to the dance perfomance, we were able to tackle the challenges faced and small imperfections that made the dance performance untidy. We were overall able to make the performance more effective by removing the imperfections and trying our best to match each other’s rhythms and style, yet still weren’t able to achieve this to a great extent which acted as a challenge throughout our practices and our performance.

Considering skills developed, I, individually, was able to improve my style, body awarness and flexibility(considering the gymnastics elements added), and most importantly team work. Such skills improved allowed me to be able to work as a team not only while communicating, yet by matching each other’s style and understanding the collabrative group performance should look like.

Our challenge was not fully overcome which could further be worked upon by individually improving my skills to adapt to the style that the dance style requires through practice and further improve our team work and understanding as a group.

LO 5: Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively

For the dance competition, working collabratively was identified to be the most important aspect being a group perfomance. Our greatest challenge was to be able to performance in a manner completing each other, required constant collabration and cooridnation for the performance look creative and effective. Not only was it difficult for me, but it wasn’t easy for the enitre tema to compeltley collabrate wiht each other. We tired out best to rectify small imperfections and errors made by each member. We reflected on each other’s movements and specifically worked hard on our perfomace. We took out extra time from our routine in order to work harder on the perfomance. Through we tried overcoming our challenge as a team, however, still weren’t able to achieve a completely effective and creative perfomance at the end overcoming this challenge.

Conclusion

Overall, Kalakriti posed an oppourtunity for me to develop not only my dancing skills with specific style and improving upon my imperfections as well as being abel to work collabractively within the team in order to overall performance look visually pleasing. I was able to improve my dance skills significantly with the improved amount of practice and further require to improve them in order to work well in a group. I was abel to refelct upon teh different imperfection in myself and others in order to develop on the perfomance and further communciate them effectively for them to be properly executed. I was able to balance my daily routine in order to give more time towards the performance for a good result in the competion.

The result was not what I expected, however did teach me how I can develop upon my dancing and collbrative skills in a team allowing me to develop my physical skills and dancing skills overall and would be abel to improve further in the future countining practice the artwork.