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>> Yash: Hey guys this is Yash Koppala

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and I’m from Reign Yash Dance Academy and you’re watching MAD!

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I’m basically from um south part 
of India, Hyderabad.

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I was born and brought up in Hyderabad

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and I’ve been here 
in Canada since last five years.

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Brampton is

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the place where you have more of Indian community.   

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Not only just Indian community that that’s place

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is more of like…it looks like a Bollywood.  

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Like you know you’re seeing more of like your home country.

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You have people everyone love to

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you know,
enjoy the Bhangra music, Bollywood music.

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So even if I see a

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people from different culture they still enjoy our Indian culture music.

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You know it’s a competition.

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Why? I’ll tell you there are a lot of other 
organizations here

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who’s been established more than seven-ten years.

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I want to stand out myself.

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I know there are brilliant groups here in Brampton, in GTA,   

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but the thing is like what you give from 
your best as a team

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so that’s what I majorly focus.

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So I did my best part from the time I’ve started 

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and you know sometime, definitely, like uh when

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we are not well recognized uh people definitely won’t call you.

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I think three years back I got this opportunity

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where I have to be a partake in one of the biggest event in GTA

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that’s when I more…

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you know the company got recognized.

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So then on we never left any any show.

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Like let’s say we got a small opportunity, we never said no.

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We’re gonna do it.

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Without struggle there’s no success.

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So always have to

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never say no to any of the opportunity that knocks on your door.

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>> Yash: Starting days we had a lot of difficulties.

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How to get into the market?

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What we try to show, what do they like?

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This is all major questions we usually had it and we’re trying to  

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make sure that we fulfill what actually the audience are looking for.

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>> Rennie: My name is Rennie, I’m the team manager.

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I handle the operations and sort 
of choreography of the team for

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Reign Yash Dance.

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When we started off it was a little different

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compared to where we’re coming from, right.

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In India the culture is totally different that’s all what we’re doing.

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But then here um…when I say different

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it was different as in there’s a lot of different cultures and…   

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but it was also very welcoming.

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>> Yash: Since we have done the same Bollywood fusion style um last year,

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we thought we will come up something new.

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But due to this lockdown season we need to cut down the dancers

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and we have to pick,

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you know, pick only a few of them as per the requirements.

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Some of them were a bit disappointed because I couldn’t get them on the floor

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and uh 
hopefully we plan to bring them next year. 

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>> Rennie: Also practicing virtually was a big challenge for us.  

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>> Yash: Yeah, yeah, yeah!

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>> Rennie: And then even like having to meet one last time

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people were not comfortable meeting in 
this situation.

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So virtually having to coordinate

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and trying to understand how to practice and coming up with the new choreography

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um that was really challenging.

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>> Yash: Last year when we performed 
at BollywoodMonster Mashup

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that’s our biggest

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um biggest event of 2019.

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With such a good positive
uh

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response we got more publicity I would think.

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We are performing you know uh in front of huge crowd

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we always remember this as one of the best.

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>> Yash: It is something different when you’re performing live

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in front of an audience um

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and performing virtual and looking up your performance after you finish.

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It’s totally different.

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During this pandemic time we had not meet up.

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My team did not meet up since like four to five months. 

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We were so so happy to see and we were

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so enthused
to perform with full-on energy.

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All my family members who were back home

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they also saw a live performance and they had great feedback from

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uh from back home.

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So it was really something very, very, very good experience that we had this year.

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>> Rennie: It was also great to have performed there in spite of what’s going  

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on in the world.

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Have something to entertain everybody while they’re sitting home.

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Um seeing what’s happening around the world, it was a great experience.

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As we performed this year um

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and virtually

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we can see that the viewers was more than a million views.

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So we have a touch to uh many audience

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and it also helped our, you know, company to

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get into the market.

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