Bring championship energy to your event with UTD Raftaar, an award-winning Bollywood and fusion dance team from UT Dallas and one of the most recognized names on the national Desi dance circuit. We placed 1st at Legends, a premier national championship, and perform on the country's biggest stages for thousands. We blend Bollywood, hip hop, bhangra, and fusion into high-precision, high-hype sets for weddings, galas, cultural nights, festivals, and private parties. As a self-funded student team, we're flexible twice over: we perform year-round and happily take the weeknights, early slots, and last-minute dates most troupes pass on, all while building a custom package for your budget!
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Languages: English, Hindi, Punjabi
Gig length: 5 - 10 minutes
If you hire us, here's what actually shows up.
A large group of dancers in custom costuming, custom-mixed music, and a routine built for your event rather than pulled off a shelf. We arrive early, we bring our own everything, and we need a floor, a sound hookup, and somewhere to change.
Length: 3 minutes to a full set. Your call.
Size: small ensemble to full team, depending on your stage.
Style: tell us the crowd, we build to it.
Extras: crowd interaction, a quick teach-the-audience moment, or content you can post afterward.
One point of contact. Fast replies. Everything confirmed before the week of the event.
The performance is what people remember. The reason clients come back is that working with us was easy.
UTD Raftaar is a competitive Bollywood and fusion dance team out of the The University of Texas at Dallas. We compete on the national Desi Dance Network circuit, and in 2024, we won Legends, the national championship. We also took second at the National Desi Dance League and have most recently competed at the highest stage at the Legends Championship for 2026.
What that actually means for an event: you get a group of dancers who train year-round for a stage where a single missed count costs you a title. Precision, formations, and energy that carries to the back of a room. We are used to performing in front of thousands of people and on a nationally streamed broadcast, and we bring that same intensity to a wedding reception, a corporate mixer, a festival stage, or a campus event.
Our style blends Bollywood, hip hop, bhangra, and South Asian classical and folk forms into sets built around live-crowd impact. We are a fully self-funded student team, so every booking goes straight into keeping this team on the national stage, and every crowd we perform for gets a group that treats the gig like it matters.
We handle our own choreography, costuming, and music, and we can tailor length, song selection, and format to fit your event. Whether you want a five minute showstopper, a full set, or a high-energy opener to get a room on its feet, we can build it.
If you want a performance people talk about after they leave, that is what we do!
Sound: This is the main thing we need. If you have a speaker or PA system we can connect to, that works best. We'll send our track ahead of time or bring it on a phone or laptop with a standard aux or Bluetooth connection. If you don't have a system, we can bring our own party-sized speaker at no extra cost.
Space: A flat, clear performance area. Hard floor is ideal. We can adjust our formations to fit whatever footprint you have, just let us know the rough dimensions in advance.
Lighting: Whatever you already have is fine. Standard venue or event lighting works, and we can perform outdoors in daylight. If you want something more dramatic, we can bring our own lighting setup.
Other: A space to change and set down bags. Access to the performance area 15 to 30 minutes before we go on so we can do a quick sound check and spacing run.
That's it. We handle costumes, music, props, and setup on our end.
Thursday
Cultural Event
7:00pm - 7:15pm
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McKinney, TX
We don't work off a fixed set list. We usually perform our past sets or anything that you specifically request.
We choreograph to music in any Indian language. Most commonly Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil, but we're open to
Whatever fits your audience.
Styles we cover:
Bollywood — the classics and current hits
Bhangra — high energy, best for getting a crowd on its feet
Hip hop — sharp, modern, works well for younger audiences
Contemporary — for slower, more emotional moments
Send us your event details and a few songs you love, and we'll build the mix around them.
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