Dancer’s Insight

HEMANT

I was born in a family of farmers in a small village of Rajasthan in India. Since my early childhood, my tender mind sensed an agitation, an excitement and a craving for something unknown, whenever I heard a rhythm, a tune or any melody. At the age of 14, I left my home for Delhi in the quest of my existence, my dreams with nothing in my pocket and without telling anyone.

For the support bestowed upon me by my guru Sh Rajinder Gangani during that period of struggle and hardship, I will be indebted to him forever who was the first one to observe my unexplored energy and my thirst to learn and hence, taught me in such a way that I could aspire to fulfill my lifelong endeavor.

Though I am a professional dancer when I sing, I feel that music is the air in which I am breathing and whenever I dance, I know my movements are articulating some voice in space. I always hear melody, a rhythm, a song of the body in the sound of my intricate spontaneous footwork patterns. For me, dancing is like giving a visible form to the song of the soul.

VAISHALI

Hailing from a family where my upbringing were shaped through an atmosphere of freedom where choice and opportunity was given to explore my hidden potential in all possible fields, the credit goes to my parents, who saw my deep inclination towards dance and decided to convert my interest into a skill by enrolling me into a prestigious Dance school.

Like many others, I started Dance as a means of recreation along with my academic stride for qualification in the streams of Science, Mathematics and management courses. Later I realized that whatever I studied had a direct affinity with my dance.

For me Dance became a divine science of creativity with immense research, which involved the exploration of endless possibilities.

It can also be considered as Management involving systematic arrangement of musical ensemble and administering our own bodily movement.

I can link Dance more closely to Mathematics since it unfolds into the generation of permutations and combinations by its precise footwork patterns and involves the setting up equations in three dimensional space with movements, thus, creating infinite geometrical figures.

All I can say is that whenever I dance, stage becomes the whole world to me and I belong to the world.