South Asian Showdown 2017 Winners

BDC News

Boston, Feb 5, 2017 (BDC): South Asian Showdown 2017 was held at John Hancock Auditorium on February 4, 2017. This year event was sold out again. The South Asian Showdown event had been
sold out for 8th straight year.
Teams from all over the country attended the event including California, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kansas, New Jersey, Missouri, Texas, and Virginia
Winning teams for 2017 were:
First Prize Winner: Boston Bollywood Xtreme
Boston Bollywood was founded in the spring of 2016 by Swati Tiwari to expand horizons of Bollywood dance in the Greater Boston area. Boston Bollywood Xtreme is the competitive team of Boston Bollywood. BBX is excited to compete in SAS.

 
Second Prize Winner: NSU Maasti
3 years ago, two freshmen-one half-asleep-decided that NSU needed an Indian dance team. From that moment, NSU Maasti was created. Maasti started out as a group of 6 girls who just wanted to dance together. We went from a little group performing for small school events, to a group of nearly 40 dancers performing at local and national competitions. We’ve been so fortunate to be the winners of NSU’s Got Talent, our university’s talent show, for two years in a row, the fusion winners of Diwali Dhamaka in 2015, and the 2nd place overall winners of Diwali Dhamaka in 2016. We’ve also had the privilege of performing at Dance Ke Deewane since it started! We’re so excited to be a part of a competition with such amazing dancers from all over the country!

 
Third Prize Winner: SLU Shakti
Founded in 2011, SLU Shakti is Saint Louis University’s Co-ed Bollywood Fusion Dance team. Today, Shakti has become a nationally competing dance team. Due of the whole team’s hard work and dedication, we are able to compete amongst very talented teams all across the nation. Our team isn’t just a team, it’s a family. SLU Shakti – Can you handle the power?
Mr. Rohit Bhambi, Founder and former President of Boston Bhangra, said, “It’s a pleasure to continue to host this event with all the talent that we present from across North America. Boston doesn’t get to see this level of talent and it’s FANTASTIC to portray all of this here. The continued diversity that the event shows is incredible and we’re very proud of what we’ve accomplished! It’s the first time a Boston team has won this competition so that is also a monumental achievement!”