Indian Cultural Week

Indian Cultural Week

The Winterline Centre for the Arts has brought great honor to the school as well and taught many people a lot of things by helping set up the amazing exhibitions. They consisted of dying, block printing, making hand dyed cloth into rolls of string, making handmade shawls and hand stitching. This experience took me back in time, because when I saw the spinning wheel, I felt that I was looking at Gandhi Ji and went, “Whoa! This is out of this world .” And amazingly I realized how Rich the history if India is. My favorite part of the exhibition was looking at all the machines and actually understanding how they worked and how complicated they were.

Then we got to see a famous Orissi dancer called Diya Sen who has performed many places in the world, including Woodstock School! We the 6th graders were lucky enough to have two classes with her. In them, we learned many different things such as what hand sign means what different thing. We learned how the Orissi dancing is actually done. We learned the history of the dance as well as performing (in front of our class) some skits using the hand gestures that we were taught. When we saw the dancer performing in front of our eyes, we understood a lot of the dance because we knew what she meant. Thanks to the Winterline Centre for the Arts, we were lucky enough to get such an experience!