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Journey From a Corporate Leader to Artistic Discipline | Rajeswari Vaidyanathan | TEDxNITKSurathkal


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okay good evening everybody

I’ve got a tree with a turn and that’s

my part of China regimen sorry I’m just

trying to catch my breath

it’s a pleasure to be here amongst all

these bright young minds what you saw

right now would it be quite different

from the kind of performances that you

would have been used to we’re gonna come

to that later but what we show it now

was a little demonstration of a dance

called routine which is dance in a

competition in an international

competition so I start off with an

assumption and I’m sure right on that

the assumption is that most of you all

cheer will be engineers or from the

science background am i right my second

assumption is most of you would have

chosen this background because somewhere

some friend family can lead not very

pure blue Armenian society is not

consciously or unconsciously would have

influenced you to take this position my

friends that’s the case of majority of

us in India from the time that we are

born we’ve driven with the idea that we

have to study hard we have to follow an

academic career but it is

be a doctor engineer chaturanga then be

a lawyer in order to be successful in

order to earn the most important thing

in life which is money we have to study

and follow these parts whether we

believe or we don’t believe in order to

all those thing

houses cars and international trips

abroad with my friends my life too was

very very stable

once upon a time bought into a family of

charged accountants and engineers

material percy was never given an option

what I was doing my eyes see I said

yachts and eighty to eighty four percent

and I really felt like a loser always

need to feel like one and I truly

believe that nonetheless when I was as

young as four or five years of age I

wanted to become a doctor

notice how that idea got it a tight

young age but my father being an idea

allowed me to write only into colleges

in such as men love motivated destiny

had something has died for me I didn’t

get through went on to become a banker

after completing my NDA and prior to

that I did my English honours I hated

English honest I could try to despise

myself because I didn’t get what I

laughed at that point of time that’s

medical top ten in Calcutta University

though with English honors 20000 I got

rich life works with Asia brands like

city by isolated potential quotas my

advice

tasted success while after the other in

my stint as a senior vice president of

yes Bank I become one of the most

powerful and successful women by first

in behind itself if not just a little of

the segment but my friends all of this

comes with its own set of sacrifices and

challenges with I treated running in my

blood day after day to keep myself on

the top strength was my closest friend

it’s not easy to be successful in a my

spoiled at the corporate world I wasn’t

part of the cliched operations team I

was part of the heart card business

night the business part of it well

finally with this kind of stress my body

just gave up I was rushed into an

emergency surgery

I wanted to idiot because it was hot

fairly closing but no but body didn’t

retire even a couple of days I had to

disruption it into the surgery while

actually getting wheeled into the

operation theatre

I had a little thing in my mind what’s

this all worth it was this all stress

industry

sacrifice is really what I wanted out of

life it was thing that I realized that I

wanted to now live my life I wanted to

feel what an afternoon felt like it was

time when I felt to bring that little

girl me who always found

this enticing who always some dancing as

a medium of expression specially during

stressful times now that I’d open myself

I find much safer to trade into the

conventional part which was running

those to my heart what I wanted to do

since childhood but even now I did have

my challenges being put upon background

for those who understand I have my girl

sandy members still taunting me because

I was trading the unconventional earth

even today they tell me are going to be

that’s it that’s it our language

typically nature will be down in the

dumps why because I was trained in

unconventional spot in spite of having

proven myself as a banker in the

corporate world

nonetheless being headstrong went ahead

with my decision accepting myself as a

dancer coach etc and both of us

we gave her to two companies one which

is will to organize the organizing of

dance for championships at state and

national level yarn after young so you

can see what it was a big deal of

starting her time school my friends this

dance is a times with the difference

it’s a dance which has a predetermined

structure set syllabus it’s all lay down

guidelines it has set in user cavity and

you have to have to adapt I that’s the

first point that the judges look at when

you are on the floor it is a task that

requires every muscle of your body

specific muscles of your body to be

controlled

tilt and sort of worked on for the final

execution of the dance it’s not like the

other guys fault that is so used to make

it

hip-hop etc while I was just chatting up

a lot of people said you do this myself

yes we do to do this either but I

thought is not salsa dance what is

different-sized our batata

our dances which are called club dances

they don’t have a state structure to it

so we’re going to run you through a

little more of what times what is about

you in fact it’s the only dance which is

part of the enjoy deviates and the word

cleans it the structures so been defined

that it’s supposed to be medically tuned

to the body requirements also so this

dance how did we give birth to this idea

so what he in China were talking abroad

and training with our coach who’s Alicia

Pacific champion for the eighth

consecutive years incidentally trained

about twice as your that’s the best you

can afford at this point of time but of

visualizes don’t follow and enthusiasm

which existed on the sport even in sri

lanka but not in india but so much

talent in India we wanted ourselves to

get a good recognition in the global

platform we wanted to create an

awareness among people get win over the

government and the government support

and of course get the shoe – more

techniques to India so that’s what we

strive and strove to do what you do

quickly we run into a little bit of all

the dances of before that

has got two categories to decide on what

has got two categories to it

– Nitin and one is standard a lot for

the standard of Oh

Lachlan has got five – box the some

number cha-cha-cha and the passes okay

the standard has brought the two types

of balls released and the cell voice is

like the Quick Step Foxtrot and the

ballroom tango each of these transforms

particularly that khun has predefined

steps to it a different mood room Samba

is a quick time for me come to that cha

cha again posture has a different mood

to it and I’m going into all the details

and you’ve got that answer that specific

set so we touch what one or two of these

stands for we have a Samba Samba I don’t

know whether you’ve heard about it but

originates from Brazil and it’s got

creativity and sorry festivity as is

major food celebration and festivity has

its major mood of the drumbeats

throughout the basis of the musicality

so what did it do is that introduces

simple Samba song come to it you want to

join in

you’re most welcome so typically a Samba

then you have a beat of beads there are

eight weeks and you counter that so that

we want a 2 3 or 4 and so on

let’s try this out

Oh what ancient stuff Mary does what she

eats there are six seven different leads

to a sulfide and you’ve got seven

different so you can dance to all these

seven ribbons then you have a rumba

rumba is what we demonstrated robot

originates from Cuba and the Latin port

number which means to socialize out a

party but numbers as close to the dance

form and the most difficult because of

the technicality is involved it’s a

dance of love if you remember has a

story to it as soon as a story if you

are the music it was always on my mind

he couldn’t love her the way he should

have and he didn’t take care of her the

way he could have so wind in our story

we start the man the woman are attracted

to each other and he starts dancing but

she’s disappointed the bees she’s been

cheated and she’s observeit turns away

he’s quick to bring her back as she

connects slowly and steadily she

remembers all the times she’s not been

able to live up to the expectation men

generally don’t live up to expectations

you get you know what I draw

[Applause]

I’m resistant but as it attracts girls

again a typical treatment the thing was

the way she wants it so she this time

they are dancing together but there is a

level of disconnect and Dasani because

they do not prevent superficial area

together scurry and steady as they dance

this pain doctor time he was under

sentence requirements no thinner issues

movements when she gets upset typically

as the vegan show that last part of it

as it progresses they sort of he o lives

up to expectations grows into it and

they unite happily sons showed a lot of

integrity and Indian dance forms of

course have a story to it also so what’s

so different and what makes the

transport

it’s the techniques techniques as

important as any sport because that’s

what is called and athletics for the

dancers are not called dancers they are

called dice what that means so

originally technique is it already means

from the minds of the body the muscle he

uses these muscles require with our

training moves into his hand in my hand

that’s a leader and father because I

partner work the connection is founder

and I also respond with my upper body

movement and that’s how the dance group

so the Munsters use your as a foul also

comes in from each of the busted

typically I use the side muscles and the

part of the back muscles and of course

it footwork as there goes I’m going to

get into those details of a sport

technique so this is out of dip even the

hand work which is so originates from

the muscles I use this to push my hand

and put it back the hip movement but

that you see is not an isolation it’s

because of my upper body that the hips

are moving so there is a lot of depth

and intensity and I dance for the

knitted a sport that exists in India at

least I didn’t exist

unfortunately does not have these

techniques incorporated its uses without

a superficial movements where the hands

are moving in excitation of the upper

body that is concentration if you see

what exists today in India there is a

concentration of the fifth movement that

upper body has no known to be even the

reason follow is similar so that’s the

techniques that you want to get to India

and we hope to create the awareness with

the techniques so that one day our

country is able to have a proud footing

in the international arena and we leave

you with a little thought my friends

lying dormant within each one of us is

an artistic site whether it is

photography whether it is music drama

anything which is I got attended to or

maybe even unrecognized while it’s very

important to be such

in this demanding world it’s also very

important for us to give little time to

work like so close to our heart because

this is what keeps us truly in touch

with ourselves this is what keeps our

life going at the truest sense maybe not

to be but tomorrow do think about this

life is short

limit it’s never ever too late to pursue

your passions and jeans all the best and

thank you

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