By Sheryl Katz
Splitting the team into groups, Minna George announces the group choreography exercise that the girls of Nachle, the Indian dance team at SUNY New Paltz, will be participating in.
At the start of the semester, neither she nor her co-captain, Debbie Schaeffer, contribute to this exercise, instead they take a step back and watch the rest of the team work together to come up with choreography using the Indian dance techniques and hand formations of Bharatanatyam taught to them.
“I have really high expectations of them because a lot of them are really creative,” George said.
By initiating a group choreography exercise, she is making sure the walk-on dance team will carry on successfully and continue to prosper after she graduates from SUNY New Paltz in May.
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