South Asian Showdown, SAS for short, has teams from all over North America competing to be crowned the Showdown Champion. Teams from Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Florida, California, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia, Missouri, and Kansas showed the Boston audience some of the best dances they have seen all year!
In its eighth year, this fun and unique competition was a great hit. The show was sold out again for the eighth straight year. "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!" says Rohit Bambi.
The winning teams were:
Winner: Boston Bollywood Xtreme
Second Place: NSU Maasti
Third Place: SLU Shakti
About the teams
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
Three 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!
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?
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