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V. unbeatable
V. unbeatable













v. unbeatable

"My father is a tailor and my mother sells snacks outside the railway station but because of the lockdown both of them have lost their jobs," 17-year-old dancer Nikhil Patlekar says in a video posted by the group in May. Poor day laborers - including many of the dancers' parents - were hit the hardest. When India went under lockdown and shut down its economy, tens of millions of people lost their jobs. Meanwhile, there's plenty of reason for the dancers to worry. It keeps them busy, says Bhoir, and hopefully away from negative thoughts. Some of them have been making and uploading short dance videos on social media. To keep them engaged, Bhoir and other senior members of the team have been giving the dancers weekly quizzes about the history of hip-hop. "They keep asking me, when will things go back to normal? When can we start dancing again?" says Bhoir. Suburban trains in Mumbai are also only running for essential workers so the dancers can't travel for rehearsals.īhoir has spent the last few months fielding anxious calls from his younger teammates. The nationwide lockdown has now been partially eased but large gatherings are still banned and the dancers are not able to practice the human pyramids and group gymnastics that had wowed fans around the world. No one from the team has tested positive yet, says Bhoir. Most of the dancers and their families have been confined to their cramped, mostly one-room homes in the slums of northern Mumbai. Mumbai has reported nearly 150,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 7000 deaths as of 2 September. The virus spread quickly through the city's slums, where physical distancing is next to impossible and sanitation is scarce. Mumbai, India's financial capital and the dancers' hometown, has been hit particularly hard. Its total caseload of about 4 million cases is the third highest in the world behind the U.S. India is recording around 80,000 fresh COVID-19 infections daily - the highest single-day tally in the world. "What was supposed to be the best time of our lives became the toughest time of our lives," says Bhoir. They couldn't even celebrate properly, says the group's 28-year-old choreographer Swapnil Bhoir. The shows where they were scheduled to perform were canceled, so their source of income dried up.

v. unbeatable

Daily rehearsals - where all two dozen would gather to practice acrobatic moves together - were suspended. The dancers were basking in the glory of their spectacular victory when India went under a strict coronavirus lockdown in late March. But the pandemic was declared just weeks after their triumphant return home. They'd hoped the win would help improve the financial situation of their families and open doors to new opportunities. NPR wrote about them after they won America's Got Talent: The Champions this February. V Unbeatable is a Mumbai-based acrobatic dance troupe whose members range in age from 12 to 28 and come from the city's slums.















V. unbeatable