We are one -
Patriotic Dance

Three dancers stand on either side, holding three satin clothes, in saffron, white and green, depicting the Indian National Flag. A wheel can be seen rotating in the place of the Ashoka chakra. When the six dancers move away, dismantling the tri-colors, a person wearing a white shirt and blue jeans is seen setting himself straight on his wheelchair, indicating that he had kept himself in a slanting position in such a way a that only the wheel on the left side of his wheelchair is visible from between the white and green satin cloth. He then rotates himself on the wheelchair for almost 20 counts. 

As he exits the stage, six female dancers in Bharatanatyam costume enter and stand in a V position, each of them holding the National flag on their hands. They then sway the flag from left to right with coordinating body movements. 

All of them turn around and bend their knees, touching their left hands on the floor and right hands holding the National flag high, facing the sky. 

They exit the stage while four men in wheelchairs enter the stage. Two of them on the second row have their back turned towards the audience and two of them on the front start wheeling around (throwing the trunk backward while coasting quickly forward). As they stop, one more wheelchair user joins the team and all five of them come together in a straight horizontal line and show crisp movements throwing their right and left arms in the air alternatively and finally having both the arms wide open and looking at the skies above. 

As ‘Maa tujhe salaam’ plays, all of them turn their wheelchairs right and bow down by bringing their arms from the bottom to the center in a folded hands position. They turn towards their left and repeat the same before turning towards the audience and continuing the same action. 

During ‘Vande Mataram’, two of them fall backwards on their wheelchair as the female dancers in Bharatanatyam costume enter with the National flag and stand in a vertical line, one behind the other.

The dancer in the front alights and stands on the hands of both the wheelchair dancers who are on the floor and poses like ‘Bharat Mata’, with her right leg bent and crossing over towards the left, while the other dancers behind her neatly sways the flag. 

Some of them exit the stage and they now make the formation of the courageous ‘Bharat Mata’ where three Bharatanatyam dancers stand in a vertical line, one on top of the other, with two similar dancers on either sides and two wheelchair dancers in white in their front, swaying their bodies in sync towards the right and left with Simha mudra (Lion pose) on their hands. 

As some of them exist, there are now five wheelchair dancers and five Bharatanatyam dancers on stage, standing in two rows with the mein in front. The wheelchair dancers throw their bodies backwards, while the Bharatanatyam dancers balance on their wheelchairs, all of them saluting towards the audience. 

They now make a formation where the person who acted as the Ashoka chakra comes to the center of the stage, with a Bharatanatyam dancer standing behind him with peacock feathers covering her face and body, while the others stand behind her, covering themselves with the tri-colored flag and forming a peacock’s shape with it. All of them then sway together like a peacock.

The next formation is where four wheelchair dancers come in a semi-circle, shifting their bodies in such a way that their partner Bharatanatyam dancers can balance on the handles of the wheelchairs, with both their legs in the air, making a 60 degree angle. 

Next is where two Bharatanatyam dancers stand in Chakrasana (a  posture of the body that resembles a wheel) on either side and another Bharatanatyam dancer stands in Chakrasana, her hands supported by one wheelchair dancer and legs supported by another wheelchair dancer, after which both the wheelchair dancers also perform Chakrasana.

In the next formation, two wheelchair dancers balance a Bharatanatyam dancer on top of their heads on either side of the stage, while her legs make a 30 degree angle and hands hold a salute position. Four other Bharatanatyam dancers come to the center of the stage, three of them on ground and one balancing on the thighs of the two dancers on either side, all of them with saluted hands. 

Next, we see a Bharatanatyam dancer supporting two wheelchair dancers fall backwards onto the ground, while another Bharatanatyam dancer stands on top of them, holding the National flag while the two wheelchair dancers salute with one hand and balance their bodies. 

The teams gets into their final formation, where three wheelchair dancers sit in a row, two wheelchair dancers and one Bharatanatyam dancer in a row behind them, three Bharatanatyam dancers balancing themselves on wheelchairs behind them and one Bharatanatyam dancer in a sitting position at the front. The dancers standing at the edges of the first and third rows have the National flag on their hands while the others are in a saluting position.