Culture ALARMÉL VALLI BHARATANATYAM PERFORMANCE: The Cowles Center www.tctosca.com Exploring Culture | 33 Photo courtesy of Alarmél Valli ASIAN Theatre IMMIGRANT JOURNEY PROJECT | Aug. 4–20, 2017 Mu Performing Arts, SteppingStone Theatre (55 Victoria St. N, Saint Paul, MN) Created by artist Masanari Kawahara. This project explores the 21stcentury immigrant experience using puppetry, movement, and masks. Community members will be joined by Mu actors who will play cameo roles and serve as mentors for the newly trained performers. $10 | muperformingarts.org | 651.789.1012 Dance SHYAMALI: SPROUTING WORDS | Sept. 15 & 16, 2017 Ananya Dance Theatre, The O’Shaughnessy St. Catherine’s University (2004 Randolph Ave., Saint Paul, MN) Choreography by Ananya Chatterjea. Combining the metaphor and poetry of contemporary Indian dance, this performance “… explores how dissent fuels life force and growth and recognizes the courage of women who speak up and talk back to sustain communities against injustice.” (From the website.) $19-$29 | http://oshaughnessy.stkate.edu | 651.690.6700 Ragamala Dance Company “Ragamala Dance Company’s work explores the dynamic tension between the ancestral and the personal. As choreographers and performers, Ranee and Aparna create dance landscapes that dwell in opposition–secular and spiritual life, inner and outer worlds, human and natural concerns, rhythm and stillness–to find the transcendence that lies in between. As mother and daughter, each brings her generational experience to the work–the rich traditions, deep philosophical roots, and ancestral wisdom of India meeting and merging with their hybridic perspective as Indian-American artists.” (ragamaladance.org) ALARMÉL VALLI | Sept. 14 & 16, 2017 The Cowles Center (528 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis, MN) thecowlescenter.org | 612.206.3600 Artist’s Talk–THE MOVING TEMPLE: DANCE AND THE DIVINE | Thurs., Sept. 14, 2017, 7PM Internationally acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer/ choreographer Alarmél Valli will present a lecture and demonstration on Bharatanatyam, or Sadir, a major genre of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. Ragamala’s Artistic Directors Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy have been studying Bharatanatyam under Ms. Valli since 1984. $15 ALARMÉL VALLI (continued) ALARMÉL VALLI BHARATANATYAM PERFORMANCE Sat., Sept. 16, 2017, 7:30PM Alarmél Valli’s dance, accompanied by a musical ensemble from South India…“blurs the boundaries between tradition and the individual talent, inheritance, and invention. In her choreography, the Bharatanatyam idiom is not merely a received grammar, but a reinvented one.” (From the website.) $29 Exhibits Minneapolis Institute of Art (2400–3rd Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN) Free | new.artsmia.org | 612.870.0723 EMBROIDERING AN ORDERED COSMOS: CHINESE DAOIST PRIEST GARMENTS OF THE QING DYNASTY (1644–1911) | Through Sept. 3, 2017 A WORLD OF RADIANT AWAKENING: BUDDHISM AND THE PAINTING OF CHINA | Through Nov.5, 2017
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