We started off learning how to dance to a song called 'Say Om Shani Om' from the film ‘Om Shanti Om’. Miss Hainstock taught us some basic moves for example walking from side to side while pointing in the direction she told us. In the beginning it felt more like aerobics and the moves didn’t really make any sense with the song but when we did the whole thing again, it made sense! :D then a girl called Amera, who used to be miss Hainstock’s form and is apparently a professional bollywood dancer, took over and taught us some more moves to the this song. It didn’t exactly work because most of us just got confused but we got it after practicing twice so we did it twice then stopped. We relaxed and moaned for a few minutes while Ms. Hainstock looked for a different song however we realised that instead of finding a different song, she was searching for a ‘How to do a bollywood dance to any bollywood music’.
She found us a tutorial on how to dance to the song ‘Jai ho’.
The lady first showed us what the dance was going to be like when dancing to the music; then, she taught us the moves step by step, starting from legs then going onto hands. The moves were so simple that all of us were able to do it after the first try. After practicing it a couple of times with the music, we showed what we have learnt to Holly, Ms. Eyres and Ms. Harris and challenged them to do it. As they did not know the moves Rajan, Jaydeep and I showed them how to do the steps step by step like we learnt them. When it was their turn to do it, except for ms. Harris, the rest of them got it. Then, Mr. Chapman came in and we showed them the dance and he attempted it to. This was an amazing media lesson and really fun too.
When we started the dance, I was feeling nervous as I am not too confident about dancing in front of other people; however, by the end of the lesson I was not feeling that shy because I realised that everyone was feeling nervous but were still doing it even if they weren’t too good at it. I also realised if they had the courage to do it then so should I. So I didn’t really care about performing in front of other people.
I found the whole thing easy as the dance moves were quite basic and I really enjoyed myself because I didn’t have to think much about it while dancing. However, the hardest part, which was not too hard but was quite challenging, was teaching the teachers how to do the dance mainly because in the beginning we were not sure how to explain them the moves however, once we got the hang of it, it was really easy.
I think learning from the youtube was much more successful then being taught by the two teachers because the lady on the video explained us step by step and it made more sense.
I think we worked really well as a group because we were all very supportive to each other and tried extremely hard not to laugh when the others were dancing although we did eventually cracked up; also, we were all helping each other out when one didn’t understand something and we were encouraging each other as well even if they were not good (not saying anyone was bad because everyone danced really well).
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