January 2019
ADT’s “Shaatranga” at Rutgers University, January 28-February 2
Shawngram Participatory Workshop Loree Dance Theater 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 29, 2019 A choreographic methodology that integrates storytelling and explores how to activate women of color and feminisms in creative…
Continued →February 2019
ADT’s “Shyamali” at Columbia College Chicago, February 14-16
Ananya Dance Theatre’s work is inspired by the extraordinary dreams of ordinary women. This company of self-described cultural activists makes its Dance Center debut with a work exploring how dissent…
Continued →March 2019
RadicalBliss Dance Imprint Shoeless Music/Dance Jam
Join us for our second RadicalBliss party series invoking a transnational feminist community that is the inspiration for our new, 2019 work “Sutrajaal.” We invite you to come together in…
Continued →ADT’s “Shaatranga” at D.C.’s Dance Place, March 30-31
Ananya Dance Theatre will perform “Shaatranga: Women Weaving Worlds” at Dance Place, Washington, D. C., March 30, 8pm, and March 31, 7pm.
Continued →April 2019
ADT’s “Shaatranga” at John Michael Kohler Art Center, April 11
“They are dancing for their own lives and for the lives of women all over the world…”—Caroline Palmer, Star Tribune Ananya Dance intersects contemporary Indian American dance with a philosophy…
Continued →May 2019
RadicalBliss Dance Imprint Shoeless Music/Dance Jam
Join us for the Inaugural GloFFUC (Global Feminist Funk Underground Club) party, a series within our RadicalBliss DanceImprint party! Our music Magic-Weaver will be the Divine Sarah White! Imagine a…
Continued →ADT’s “Shaatranga” at Kelly Strayhorn Theater, May 10-11
Presented as part of newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival 2019 Ananya Dance Theatre returns to KST—after captivating audiences with its expansive approach to contemporary Indian dance last fall—to present its newest…
Continued →June 2019
Ananya Dance Theatre & the Shawngram Institute present Onurawnon/Vibration
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice present Onurawnon/Vibration, performances of choreography by Toan Thanh Doan and Brotherhood Dance/Orlando Zane Hunter, Jr. & Ricarrdo Valentine.…
Continued →RadicalBliss Dance Imprint Shoeless Music/Dance Jam
Join us for the next in our RadicalBliss party series invoking a transnational feminist community that is the inspiration for our new, 2019 work “Sutrajaal.” We invite you to come…
Continued →A reading & performance by Gabrielle Civil: Experiments in Joy
Ananya Dance Theatre and the Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice host a reading and performance by Gabrielle Civil to activate her new performance memoir, Experiments in Joy, celebrating black…
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