“Hi Lives”, a dance performance as a tribute to
King of Pop Michael Jackson held in City
Hyderabad|India|August'2011: Rams Step Up, a Hyderabad based Dance
Studio that presents workshops in Hip- Hop, Salsa, Contemporary, Bollywood,
Free style all through the year organized on Monday “Hi Lives”, a dance
performance as a tribute to the deceased King of Pop Michael Jackson who
would have turned 53 years on 29th August.
The performance was held at Prasad’s I-Max. Farhan Shahed, city’s beatbox
artist kicked off tribute with his beatboxing talent. He produced
varieties of vocal sounds. With his astonishing vocal percussion skills
involving the art of producing drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds
using his mouth, lips, tongue, and voice, he mesmerized his audience. Be
it Kick Drums, Reverse Kick Drums, Snare Drums, Inward Snare Drums,
Hi-Hats and Cymbals, Rolls, Scratching, Bass Sounds, Farhan was at his
best.
Michael Jackson was known to record himself beatboxing, so is my
beatboxing performance to pay him rich tributes, said Farhan, who has
hundreds of performances to his credit.
The was followed by a dance performance lead by city’s well known dance
trainer and Director of Rams Step Up Dance Studio K. Rammurthy. 150
dancers from age 5 to 35years joined him in the performance. K. Rammurthy
is the most sought after dance master and trainer in the city. Among
thousands whom he trained are some of the well known film stars. For
Rammurthy, dance is a life and life is dance.
Sporting white T-Shirts with Michael Jackson image on the front side of
the T-Shirt and the theme “He Lives”. Youth whistling frequently and
shouting, they all danced a number composed by mixing five best songs of
Michael Jackson.
Youth in India are craze about MJ dances. MJ has millions of fan following
in India and Hyderabad. Unfortunately, many of his birthdays went
unnoticed in the past. This year wanted to pay him rich tribute by such a
dance number many youth should remember him forever. And we wanted
dedicate this performance to thousands of his fans in the city, said K.
Rammurthy speaking immediately after the performance.
This performance was finished so fast in about ten minutes, that the crowd
had to yell ‘once again”, “once again”. I am very happy to have been the
part of this tribute, said Jyotsna. Echoed her feeling was Ramya. I am a
die hard fan of MJ. So I am here said, Phalgun. MJs dance is eternal and
will remain with us ever, said Priyanka.
With the success of the event and repeated requests of the participants,
we wanted to make it an annual event, informed Rammurthy. We would also
like to have a similar performance on the next “World Dance Day”,
Rammurthy said.
