More than 100 students gathered in Bellefield Hall Auditorium Saturday evening to watch the SASA Show — the South Asian Student Association’s annual dance showcase. The show featured performances from South Asian dance teams across campus representing different forms of dance.

FRESA, or Fresh Entertainment by Student Artists, is a Pitt student-led organization that explores Asian pop culture through dance and song, producing music videos mimicking that of Korean pop, Japanese pop or Chinese pop groups.

Lynn Urbina still remembers the first music video that hooked her on K-pop — “Sherlock,” by the popular group SHINee. She was struck not just by the music video’s aesthetic — which featured...