41)Republic Day parade: Before a dance to remember long rehearsals little sleep
India Republic Day -- With the Prime Minister and the Chief executive in the audience 14-year-old Daksh Chopra couldnt have required a better stage to dance on. A student of Rohinis Mount Abu school he was one of the 150 students who have performed at the Rajpath upon Republic Day. Dressed in striking attire and sporting buttocks plaits and parted locks the children put up a display representing the 10-member nations around the world of ASEAN whose market leaders too were in being. We were divided into communities and each group did a new dance form of one of the 12 ASEAN countries. I was from the Vietnam group and we performed a fan dance. In December we all researched on the dance observed videos and then devised a new choreography said Nandini Madhukar (14). It was within mid-December that the students outdated between 12 and 14 began rehearsing for the performance. They spent the night at school on Thursday had an evening meal there got ready along with reached Rajpath at 7 am