MIT Chamak History

Chamak, MIT's premiere South Asian Fusion dance team, was initiated by Payal Kadakia in the Fall of 2002, and developed by its inaugural executive board consisting of Payal Kadakia, Parul Deora, and Ashvini Thammaiah.

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MIT Chamak aims to introduce a new dance genre expressing energy, culture, and grace through a fusion of Eastern and Western dance and musical styles.
Since the Fall of 2002, this team has performed in Boston, Cambridge, Cleveland, New Jersey, and New York. The dancers and choreographers creatively use their dance skills to produce innovative and distinctive masterpieces that continue to astound their audiences.

Chamak Alumni

MIT '01
Aparna Das

MIT '02
Rupa Hattangadi

MIT '03
Ekta Desai
Priya Verma
Sumati Ram-Mohan

MIT '04
Sudha Amarnath
Punita Bhansali
Parul Deora ‡
Rasika Kumar

MIT '05
Shima Goswami
Rajini Haraksingh
Prachi Jain
Payal Kadakia †‡
Gargi Khare
Sheila Krishna
Pallavi Mishra ‡
Sarika Singh

MIT '06
Ashvini Thammaiah †‡
Sejal Patel ‡
Nidhi Shrivastava

Harvard
Rakhi Mahbubani

MIT '07
Zehra Ali
Sharmeen Browarek
Rimi Ganguly
Shilpa Joshi
Varsha Keelara
Shyamli Sinha

BC '07
Anjali Gidwani
Sangeeta Mehta ‡

MIT '08
Payal Agrawal
Meghana Limaye †
Shelly Manber
Namrata Verma

MIT '09
Amreeta Gill
Pooja Jotwani
Mathangi Radha
Joyatee Sarker
Sonia Tapryal
Shiva Prakash
Sonia Nijhawan †‡

MIT '10
Sarina Siddhanti †‡

MIT '11
Akansha Kumar †‡

† indicates president
‡ indicates choreographer

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