Rice Riyaaz

05/01/2026

RIYAAZ BANQUET 25-26 🤍🩵🤍 we’re finally OUT of the woods but we had an amazing night celebrating an unforgettable season with lots of falafel, flicks, and fun superlatives! thanks to our goated captains for making this year possible 🥹🥹🥹 we knowwwww you wanna join rice riyaaz, so stay tuned this summer for audition info and exec board drop 🤞🏼

04/01/2026

Forever grateful for every moment, every memory, and every person who made Riyaaz what it was. This team was more than dance — it was family 🫶🏾.

08/25/2025

RIYAAZ AUDITIONS CHOREO IS OUT‼️COME JOIN US FOR ANOTHER AMAZING YEAR OF DANCE 🪩

If you’re interested in trying out for Riyaaz, come to one of our workshops on 08/26 and 08/27 to learn the choreo (link in bio). Auditions will be held 08/28 from 6-8 pm in MPR4 at the Rec Center! We’re looking forward to see everyone try out!

DM us if you have any questions 😁

06/17/2025

And now to our second comp to finish off Riyaaz’s 2025 comp season!! 🤗🤗

We ended the season by flying out to University of Washington’s Seattle Ki Shaam! We had the most amazing time up in Seattle and are so grateful for the Seattle Ki Shaam board! Y’all worked so hard and were so accomodating to our needs, so we appreciate you guys 🥹

Shoutout to our liaisons .zaidi and for helping us out through the whole weekend and making us feel welcome! 🤞🏾🤞🏾 We had so much fun meeting you all and we hope the experience was as great for y’all as it was for us.

Congratulations to and for their placings! 👏🏾 And we’re happy to say that we received Best Theme (2x ayyy 🐀🧑🏼‍🍳🍳🤩)

We also wanted to give a HUGE shoutout to everyone who helped us throughout the season! To our DJs .mixes and , y’all are so talented and we truly appreciate your help in creating our mix this year. To .bhattacharyya, thank you so much for making our amazing videos for comp. And last but not least, thank you to our entire exec board and team. From making choreo to brainstorming set ideas to building props to putting up with all of our practices, we could not have accomplished everything without every single one of y’all 💗💗

We wish the best of luck to our new captains, and we’re already so excited for next year’s comp season! Thank you all for the love and support, and we hope you enjoyed following our journey this season. 🫶🏾

05/27/2025

It's finally time for our RIYAAZ 8.0 season recap!! 🐀🧑‍🍳 This season has been nothing short of awesome and we want to thank you all for the consistent support we received this year! ❤️❤️

We started our season off by heading to Texas A&M for Iktara 2.0! 🤠🤠 The love and energy we recieved from the board and liaisons last year made us run it back for part two and you guys did not disappoint. The crowd was also hype as always! 🔥🔥Special thanks to friends and family who showed up to support us in College Station. It means a lot to us that y'all were there to make the crowd go crazy for us. 🙏🙏

Huge shoutout to our liaisons and for being so helpful, kind, and supportive throughout our time at Iktara! We truly couldn't have performed without your guys' continuous help and motivation, so thanks and we miss you. 😢

Congrats to , , and for their respective placings in the fusion circuit and and for their respective placings in the classical circuit! 👏👏 We are also so proud to have received Best Theme!!

11/30/2024

08/29/2024

Hey guys! If y'all love dance and want to be part of a community that's all about it, pull up to our workshops and auditions for this coming year! We are hosting workshops on Sunday and Monday to teach the audition choreo (check our Instagram for it tomorrow!) and having auditions on Tuesday. The same choreo will be taught both workshop days so you only have to come to one, but you are welcome to come to both!

We are so excited to meet everyone and expand our Riyaaz family, so join us!! DM us if y'all have any questions 😇😇

08/26/2024

To our new students, welcome to Rice and we hope y’all had a great first day of classes! As you keep settling in this week, be on the lookout for audition workshop info 👀 and catch us at the fall activities fair at the RMC and central quad August 29th 🥳

07/24/2024

And can’t forget our amazing Riyaaz 8.0 exec board!

Annika Patel: Will Rice ‘27
Safa Merani: Jones ‘27
Divya Shenoy: Sid Richardson ‘27
Kartik Choudhary: Brown ‘27
Kavya Narang: Baker ‘27
Risha Manga: Baker ‘27
Trisha Rangi: Duncan ‘27
Annesha Dey: Brown ‘26
Aman Chaudhary: Wiess ‘26
Diya Shah: Martel ‘26

So hype to work together for an incredible year! 🕺🏾

07/21/2024

Introducing our new Riyaaz 8.0 (2024-2025) captains!

Naisha Mekala: Choreo Captain (Lovett ‘27)
Rishab Mandyam: Choreo Captain (McMurtry ‘27)
Nur Almajali: Logistics Captain (Brown ‘27)

We’re super excited for a fun, dance-filled year ahead 💃🏾💃🏾

05/10/2024

before we kick off the new season, we wanted to share last season’s final comp... IKTARA 2024!!

Our comp season concluded at A&M where we had an amazing time .iktara and the honor of bringing home
FIRST PLACE for our first trophy ever! We also had the honor of winning best segment and are proud of our very own who won best male lead. Shoutout to the board for their hospitality and organization throughout the weekend and our liaisons , , and _holla for being absolutely amazing and accommodating us throughout the weekend💘💘!! Congrats to and for their placings as well👑

Before we end this season we also wanted to shout out our dis and the tons of help we received! To , , , , and
thank you so much for our mix this season, we couldn’t have made our set without ur talent❤️❤️

And shoutout to the amazing .bhandarili for our videography and bringing our vision to life🫶🏽🫶🏽

Also a special shoutout to , .reddy, and for being amazing mentors every step of the way, we couldn’t have done it without y’all!!

To our exec board, our seniors, and our team, thank you so much for the effort, time and dedication, this set could not have been what it was without y’all. To next years board, y’all are gonna kill it!!

Exec 23-24 Signing Off,
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