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Members of Boston University’s Jalwa dance team pose with their trophy at the South Asian Showdown at Strand Theatre on Saturday. The team won third place for their performance based on the 2019 film “Escape Room.” COURTESY OF ANISHA PATEL

Jalwa dance team finishes competition season with third place at South Asian Showdown

Sana Muneer April 9, 2024
Jalwa, a BU Bollywood fusion dance team, performed at the 15th annual South Asian Showdown, a competition between “the best” Indian fusion and Bollywood dance teams, on Saturday.
East to West: September 11, 2020

East to West: September 11, 2020

Justin Tang September 11, 2020

Join us as we cover the difficulties faculties and students have faced after a week of hybrid learning, how to maintain a safe sex life among the COVID pandemic and the first ever virtual Boston Marathon. FEATURING:...

A scene from Boston University Stage Troupe’s production of Alan Ball’s “Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,” which showed at the BU Student Theater last Fall. Stage Troupe plans to implement “Stage Troupe From Anywhere,” which will allow students the flexibility to participate in auditions, workshops and productions remotely or in-person. COURTESY OF ROBERT BRANNING

Campus performance groups to audition virtually this season

Varsha Subramanian September 9, 2020
BU's talent-based groups have to reimagine what their recruitment and eventual performances will look like without the lights, costumes and live audiences.
Boston University’s Fatakada team at the “Boston Be Taali 2019” Raas and Garba dance competition Saturday at John Hancock Hall. COURTESY OF RAAS DANCE COMPETITION

Raas, Garba Indian dance competition comes to Boston

Aditya Jain January 29, 2019
The first-year competition, "Boston Be Taali 2019" hosted college dance teams from Indiana to Pittsburgh to Boston, all prepared to showcase their Raas and Garba dance routines.
A member of BU Jalwa, a co-ed dance team that practices hip-hop, Bollywood, Bhangra, contemporary and charisma dance, practices for the national competition in Ohio this weekend in the Sargent Activities Center Gym Tuesday evening. PHOTO BY BRITTANY CHANG/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU Jalwa dances to nationals, proves practice pays off

Trisha Thadani April 7, 2016

During the endless hours that the Boston University Jalwa team spends in practice a semester, there is always something else that its members “should” be doing — lab reports, problem sets, job...

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