Colorful silks, bright outfits and sweaty, smiling faces filled 134 Brody Hall as dancers swayed their hips to fast-paced Indian folk music.

Indian culture came alive on campus Friday night, when the Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students put on Garbhangra, which human biology junior Manasa Gummalla said fused two styles of dance, garba and bhangra.

“Garba is more like a classic dance in the northern (part) of India and bhangra is also from the northern part of India but it’s more of ... an (energetic) type of dance,” Gummalla said.

This school year marks the 25th anniversary of Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students, an on-campus organization that allows students to explore Indian culture.

World politics senior Charu Ganesh, president of CIUS, said the organization is open to everyone, regardless of descent.

“We really love it when there are people that may not have a ... background in India who come out and participate in celebrations like (this),” Ganesh said.

General management junior Rachna Chhaya was one of the members that came out to Garbhangra for a fun time.

“The Indian culture is built on a lot of music and dance and performance and arts like that, so it’s a very big part of everyone’s culture,” she said.

Ganesh said the goals of the night were to give back to CIUS members, throw a fun event and get people to sign up for the annual spring show, Satrang.

“That’s basically a show where we have seven different styles of cultural dance that we all perform on stage in this huge charity event,” Ganesh said.

“This show has never been as big as it is now, so we’re pretty proud of that.”

Chhaya said practice for Satrang is from January to March, with the show March 28 at Wharton Center.

“It’s great because the show allows people from every ethnicity, from any level of dance experience, to join,” Chhaya said.

“And actually, all of our money that we make in that show goes to charities ... we make a lot of money for a good cause.”