A sold out roaring crowd, a supreme presentation, a vigorous talent pool driven to excel, coupled with an elaborately dramatic stage set-up in a spanking new auditorium ensured a thrilling SwaRaag evening of entertainment.  Ten devoted choreographers brought their strong teams to set an impactful footprint on the elaborate SwaRaag stage. From New Jersey to New England contestants in Song and Dance categories brought on tough challenges, and Founder/President of SwaRaag Swathi Subramanian articulately weaved the audience through the variety of competitive Bollywood performances. 

Duo Dance categories in both Juniors and Seniors brought hard challenges to the judges making it difficult to mark the top two. Whereas, Solo and Spot Dances in both age divisions gripped the audience. More talented young boys entered the SwaRaag stage this year bringing a nuance of attitude and style. Elaborate themes dominated the dances, where group dance teams spent weeks working on handmade props with dramatic scenery to bring to life a theatre effect. One team even had a full chariot pulled on stage carrying a prince and impactful they were. Dazzling Moms category opened last year even paved way for some enthusiastic Dads. 

Lokvani founder Ranjani Saigal remarked ‘I am so impressed at how year after year you work so hard to support all the talent in the community. You have really made this quite a gold standard concert.’ Several contestants and their parents also expressed how prestigious they found it to present and be a part of the SwaRaag platform. 

Ms. Swathi Subramanian shared ‘I was stunned to see the great pains parents of individual and group performances had taken to raise the level of the presentation. Presentation, Props, Energy – all strived at. It must have been hours and weeks of planning and creative building. We are so proud to showcase each one of them at SwaRaag. Our huge thanks to the choreographers - Bina Negandhi, Devika Dhawan, Jai Kishan, Jasmine Shah, Shaila Verma, Ananya Venkatesan, Vaijayanthi Gopalakrishnan, Jyothi Setty, Smriti Gupta who brought their unique styles to the SwaRaag stage. Our very special thanks to eClinicalWorks for sponsoring the trophies and supporting our event – their support went a very long way!’  

This well organized program with perfect execution was only thanks to the efficient team of SwaRaag Rockstars – Anandini Sekhar, Asha Manish, Shobha Shastry, Gopi Bala, Hiral Parikh, Christy Mathew, Shikha Bajpai, Sandhya Dasu, Sainath Varikuti, Meena Subramanian, Vaibhav Dabade and Swathi Subramanian. 

Choreographers represented at SwaRaag 2017:   Bina Negandhi | Devika Dhawan | Jai Kishan | Vaijayanthi Gopalakrishnan | Jasmine Shah | Shaila Verma | Ananya Venkatesan | Jyothi Setty | Smriti Gupta 

Swathi Subramanian: Founder/President/Program Host of SwaRaag Performing Arts, Inc.

Super Efficient and Rocking SwaRaag TEAM

Vaibhav Dabade | Anandini Sekhar | Asha Manish | Shobha Shastry | Gopi Bala | Hiral Parikh | Christy Mathew | Shikha Bajpai | Sandhya Dasu | Sainath Varikuti | Kalaimangai Anbalagan | Meena Subramanian |  Swathi Subramanian 

Presiding over the SwaRaag Panel were honorable Judges:

Final Dance Judges:  

Arsh Mehrotra | Poornima Risbud | Sheethal Dwaraka 

Final Song Judges:  

Shyam Vai  | Vandana Rao | Sarita Deshpande

Audition Dance Judges:         

Kalaimangai Anbalagan | Sheetal Kelkar | Swathi Subramanian

Audition Song Judges:

Preeti Nagar | Raghu Saranathan | Vaishnavi Kondapalli

SWARAAG 2017 WINNERS

GROUP DANCE SENIOR Winning Teams                    

1^st Place:   Kabeera | Choreographer – EKTA JAIN | Ekta Dance Academy

Group Members: Ekta Jain | Anshika Jain | Devishi Jain | Tanvi Gahlot | Namya Arora | Leisha Gupta | Monisha Pendeti | Karuna Gurbaxani | Vinita Sharma | Phalguni Akhegaonkar | Koyel Das | Neelima Muddada

2^nd Place:  Just Dance | Choreographer - JAIKISHAN | Jai Ho Dance School

Group Members: Joshika Selvaraj | Sriya Reddi Pidatala | Krapakshi Sharma | Meghana Nair | Esther Antony | Pooja Hingorany | Sreya Nimmagadda | Khanak Sharma | Sareena Kansra | Reeya Kansra | Kaavya Ramanathan | Alopa Waje | Tisha Marwah | Niara Marwah | Sanjana Basu

3^rd Place:   Baahubali Mix | Choreographer – JASMINE SHAH | Aangikam Dance Academy

Group Members: Ankita Bhatnagar | Ekta Shah | Isha Chug | Sakshi Dindore | Serena Desai | Ria Deshpande | Tanvi Manjrekar | Esha Patel

GROUP DANCE JUNIOR Winning Teams                       

1^st Place:   Tharki Chokro | Choreographer – BINA NEGANDHI | Dance Spirit

Group Members: Aryam Dave | Vatsal Botla | Devam Morparia | Amal Balachundar | Aditi Nagaraja | Vrinda Heda | Radhika Heda | Devangi Rathi | Radhika Verma | Yash Sankholkar | Rheeya Khatri | Reetika Bhagadia | Abhi Boyanapalli | Abhi Balaguruswamy | Farah Semy | Asha Banka | Hiya Singh

 2^nd Place Tie:   Aladdin | Choreographer – DEVIKA DHAWAN | Devika Fusion Dance School

Group Members: Reya Ghelani | Ashrita Gandhari | Sana Godhani | Aadya Jain | Riya Patel | Monisha Kathika | Irene Ghosh | Suhani Holla | Shreya Patel | Khushi Jain | Pritha Yalakkishettar | Apoorva Hegde | Vismaya Ashok | Sakshi Nandan | Shreya Madhu

 3^rd Place: Baahubali | Choreographer – Jyothi Setty | Desi Rhythms

Group Members: Unnati Bhat | Sansriti Kumar | Kashvi Kumar | Avni Mishra | Tanvi Shistu | Nikita Mullangi | Anshika Shrivatsava | Medita Sinha | Shanvi Kumar

 GROUP DANCE ‘DAZZLING MOMS n More’ Winning Teams

1^st Place:   Dance Spirit - RaasLeela | Choreographer – BINA NEGANDHI | Dance Spirit

Group Members: Alpa Khatri | Poonam Maini | Priya Pathivada | Khushi Morparia | Medha Morparia | Ruby Boyanapalli | Sarah Semy | Rayhan Semy | Sravani Alaparti | Pranathi Srirangam |

Minal Vora | Sejal Kothari | Dhruti Ashar | Savitha Rajagopalan | Manisha Parwani |

Vaidehi Pathak | Sarika Shirude

 2^nd Place: Gajanana | Choreographer – SHAILA VERMA | Shaila Verma School of  Dance

Group Members: Srividya Ramachandran | Resmi Nair | Kalyani Kanuri | Neetu Gupta | Suchitra Patil | Bindu Balaji | Shraddha Patel | Lakshmi Jemolla | Divya Rani | Neeraja Satish

 3^rd Place: Dancing Dads | Choreographer – SMRITI GUPTA | Meher Studio of Performaing Arts

Group Members: Anoop Bhaskaran | Jai Verma | Ragu Vamsi Bonagiri | Rohan Samant | Saravanan Kandaswamy | Shreedhar Kale | Sivaramanjaneyulu Somaroutu | Mithun Saravanan | Sumit Singhal | Siya Singhal

SOLO DANCE SENIORS

1^st Place:   Shalini Jayarama

2^nd Place:  Ruhi Patil

 SOLO DANCE JUNIORS

1^st Place:   Vismaya Ashok

2^nd Place:  Shreya Soni

DUO DANCE SENIORS

1^st Place:   Aneesha Mahapatra & Aashi Kulkarni

2^nd Place:  Adhithi Venkatesan & Sruthi Ramesh

DUO DANCE JUNIORS

1^st Place:   Siri Harish & Shreya Harish

2^nd Place:  Shrishti Srinath & Lakshana Raghav

SPOT CHOREOGRAPHY

Winner:   Ashwin Nair

SOLO SONG Age 9 - 16

1^st Place:     Lochan Karthikeyan

2^nd Place:   Sravya Tanikella

SOLO SONG Age 17 – 32

1^st Place:    Suman Kalyan Sarkar

2^nd Place:  Swetha Siva

SOLO SONG Age 36&Up

1^st Place:   Vidhya Sukumaran

2^nd Place:  Debarati Mukherjee Ganguly

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