Chak De C'ville

Club Description

Chak De C'ville is dedicated to promoting awareness about Indian culture to the University of Virginia and the broader Charlottesville community. Our mission is to educate the community about Indian culture through the exhibition of Indian dance. Our goal is to create a network among colleges throughout the nation that all serve this mission and bring awareness about various regional traditional Indian forms to our community. The primary focus of Chak De C'ville is hosting an annual intercollegiate national Bollywood Fusion dance competition in Charlottesville. This competition will attract teams from colleges across that country that will exhibit numerous dance forms such as Bolly, Bhangra, Garba-Raas, various forms of Indian classical dance, hiphop, contemporary and more. Open to the public, this competition will help educate UVA and the broader Charlottesville community about Indian art and the many different regional dance forms in India. This competition will also offer organizations at UVA the chance to display their talent in Indian art forms through exhibition acts throughout the competition. This competition will be open to all UVA students, faculty, and Charlottesville community members. All funds collected from ticket sales will go towards funding the competition itself and any profit will be donated to a South Asian non-profit charity of our choosing.