The first round of tryouts of the Indian American Student Association’s annual Spotlight was held on Feb. 15th, the following groups returned on March 15th to continue the path to the spotlight.
Dance Acts:
Navya Annam’s Sophomore Group (Navya Annam, Shivangi Sharma, Natasha Shetty, Alaka Gorur, Anya Mathur, Sirina Law, Sachi Bansal, Riyana Patel)
Kuchipudi (Neha and Spoorthi)
Ashmitha Rajendran’s Classical Group (Ashmitha Rajendran, Samyu Sridhar, Anika Krishnan)
Divya Ramani’s Junior Group
Monesha Chari’s Senior Group (Monesha Chari, Sakshi Srivastava, Samyu Sridhar, Anika Krishnan, Ashmitha Rajendran, Nikita Sankar, Priya Nyayapati, Anna Aswadathi, Aishwarya Karnik, Anush Velmurugan , Sumanth Balaraman, Anshul Ramachandran, Sachin Makram, Govind Pillai, Yash Kirloskar ,Pranav Mayuram , Kunal Naik, Mihir Joshi, Samir Akre, Rishi Modi, Srivas Tirumala)Anupya Nalamalapu’s Senior Group (Sumana Praharaju, Anupya Nalamalapu, Kavya Raman, Rachita Habbu, Netanya Sreeja Krutika Hedge, Mrudula Vyasaraju, Ann Georgy,Megha Sundar, Arooshi Barua)
MV Raas
MV Bhangra
MV BWD
Fashion Show
Music Acts:
Sanjay and Saketh
Singing Acts:
Mihir’s Singing Group
Aravind’s Singing Group
Hemanth, Radhika, and Priyanka
Important Dates:
March 8th: emcee tryout
March 15: Second Tryout with all members*
April 12th: Video of act with all members, 100% complete and sent to IASA
May 1st: Final act roster, group name, costumes, and picture and group mix sent to IASA
May 5th: Ticket Sales open!
May 16th: Rehearsal at Monta Vista
May 17th: Rehearsal at senior Parth Bharwad’s house
May 23rd/24th: Spotlight
*The original date for second tryouts was March 8th, but due to Lynbrook’s Silsilay conflicting with tryout times, the tryouts were pushed back one week.
