Ramya Kapadia: Vande Mataram

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Ramya Kapadia

Love of home and homeland has the capacity to evoke many of our greatest ideals for the common good, but it can also be manipulated to bring out the worst in human nature. With impressive economy—just two dancers on an otherwise empty stage, accompanied by words and music—nationally renowned dancer, choreographer, singer, and storyteller Ramya Kapadia has carefully crafted a cautionary fable for our time out of an unlikely source: Bharatanatyam, a thousand-year-old Indian dance form based on breathtaking precision in gesture, posture, and movement. One true measure of Vande Mataram’s success, though, is that you need no knowledge of Indian culture to fully dive into this contemporary myth, in which a difference between two people (Kapadia and dancer Seema Viswanath) escalates into something exponentially greater. Original music by Rajiv Sundaresan; text by Aditya Sharma.

4:30 & 7:30 p.m.