Events

2025 Summer Intensive: Dream Dancing
Jun
23
to Jun 27

2025 Summer Intensive: Dream Dancing

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dance as a dream practice. dream as a dance practice.

Build physical strength, emotional stamina, and transnational solidarities through daily movement practice.

Ananya Dance Theatre offers our once-annual intensive training in our distinctive movement aesthetic, Yorchhā™, and choreographic practice, Shawngrām. The Intensive cohort meets every weekday for one week. Each meeting will begin with instruction in Yorchhā. Whether this is your first experience with Yorchhā or you have been practicing for multiple summers, we will meet you where you are, opening paths towards your individual excellence. After a brief break, the daily focus will shift to structured improvisational and choreographic processes. At the end of the week, you will be a part of a choreographic offering in front of a community audience.

applications close june 9, 2025

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GloFFUC: Global Feminist Funk Undergound Club
Jun
27

GloFFUC: Global Feminist Funk Undergound Club

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Imagine a group of feminists from all over the world, from global communities, meeting in an underground club deep in the center of the earth . . . This space is where they dance fiercely, to throw off the residue of their endless struggles to organize and push back against injustices, and to meditate on renewal.  Inaugurated in 2019, ADT brings back GloFFUC to offer a space of resilience amidst these times of amplified injustice. 

Gather with us in meditation and intentional dance to meet this moment. Facilitated by Artistic Director Ananya Chatterjea and Artists of Ananya Dance Theatre, we will cultivate a practice of dance and embodied meditation, invested in seeing and honoring the contexts of our resistance and survival. Between these meditations, local musicians (Tarek Abdelqader, Joey Hays, Toby Ramaswamy, and Joe Strachan) will hold sonic space for folks to move, rest, and be as they feel called.

experience intimacy and solidarity through intentional dance.

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Dream Gathering
Aug
9

Dream Gathering

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We invite our community members to join us for Dream Gatherings, rituals of coming together at the brink of the birth of a new, just world.

You are invited to wear comfortable clothes that you can move in (should you choose), to bring one or two found objects that speak to your connection with the natural world, and to arrive with open hearts. Together, we will create altars to our thriving and shared vibration. 

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“Antaranga: Between You and Me” – Sheboygan, WI, John michael kohler art center
Apr
14
to Apr 20

“Antaranga: Between You and Me” – Sheboygan, WI, John michael kohler art center

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John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI
Workshop and performance schedule TBA

Antaranga: Between You and Me is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Dance Place (Washington D.C.), the John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan), Links Hall (Chicago), The Yard (Chimark, MA), and NPN. More information: www.npnweb.org

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“Antaranga: Between You and Me” – Links hall, Chicago
Dec
2
to Dec 8

“Antaranga: Between You and Me” – Links hall, Chicago

Link’s Hall, Chicago IL
Workshop schedule TBA
Performances: 
Fri Dec 6 and Sat Dec 7, 7pm.

Antaranga: Between You and Me is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Dance Place (Washington D.C.), the John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan), Links Hall (Chicago), The Yard (Chimark, MA), and NPN. More information: www.npnweb.org

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“Antaranga: Between You and Me” – Washington D.C. (Technical Residency)
Nov
17
to Nov 20

“Antaranga: Between You and Me” – Washington D.C. (Technical Residency)

Technical Residency
Spice Workshop: 
Nov 17, 5-6:30 pm
Letter-Writing Workshop: 
Nov 18, 6:30-8 pm
Informal excerpt showing: 
Nov 19, 6:30 pm

Antaranga: Between You and Me is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Dance Place (Washington D.C.), the John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan), Links Hall (Chicago), The Yard (Chimark, MA), and NPN. More information: www.npnweb.org

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ANTARANGA: BETWEEN YOU AND ME
Sep
28

ANTARANGA: BETWEEN YOU AND ME

$5 - $50

The approximate run time of the event is 80 minutes with no intermission.

ANTARANGA: BETWEEN YOU AND ME is set in a world in deep crisis, where most people have lost their ability to sense the energy of other human beings and can no longer recognize or connect with each other. A few humsafar (“fellow travelers” in Urdu) remain, blessed with super-connecting and heart-opening powers. As they undertake perilous journeys, they forge connectivities that may yet heal the world. ANTARANGA is the first work in a duology, and explores themes of intimacy, connection, trust, and community among BIPOC women/femmes. Ananya Dance Theatre’s ensemble of BIPOC women/femme dance artists will celebrate its 20th season in 2025, with the second and final work in this series.

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ANTARANGA: BETWEEN YOU AND ME
Sep
27

ANTARANGA: BETWEEN YOU AND ME

$5 - $50

The approximate run time of the event is 80 minutes with no intermission.

ANTARANGA: BETWEEN YOU AND ME is set in a world in deep crisis, where most people have lost their ability to sense the energy of other human beings and can no longer recognize or connect with each other. A few humsafar (“fellow travelers” in Urdu) remain, blessed with super-connecting and heart-opening powers. As they undertake perilous journeys, they forge connectivities that may yet heal the world. ANTARANGA is the first work in a duology, and explores themes of intimacy, connection, trust, and community among BIPOC women/femmes. Ananya Dance Theatre’s ensemble of BIPOC women/femme dance artists will celebrate its 20th season in 2025, with the second and final work in this series.

GET TICKETS NOW

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