Ashwini Ramaswamy: Let the Crows Come
When:
Friday, Jan 19, 2024 8:00p -
Saturday, Jan 20, 2024 2:00p
Friday, Jan 19, 2024 8:00p -
Saturday, Jan 20, 2024 2:00p
Where:
Plimpton Shattock Black Box
255 St. Botolph St
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
$Starting at $67
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Music, Shows
January 19 at 8pm
January 20 at 2pm
Evoking potent symbolism of the crow as a messenger between life and death, transcending space and time, Ashwini Ramaswamy explores memory, dislocation, ancestry, and more in the Boston premiere of Let the Crows Come.
Ramaswamy, who comes from a family of Bharatanatyam teachers and practitioners, remixes and recontextualizes this Indian classical dance alongside two other artists representing seemingly disparate techniques and traditions. Alanna Morris performs with an Afro-Caribbean Modern technique, and Berit Ahlgren performs using the Gaga technique developed by Ohad Naharin.
Together, the three women illustrate the transmission of memory and ideas from person to person, generation to generation, and culture to culture: movements from Bharatanatyam dance are passed between them, transformed by each dancer’s training and artistic interpretations.
Profoundly personal and universally resonant, Let the Crows Come is “a fascinating, beautifully developed exchange of dance styles,” according to The Washington Post.
Single tickets will go on sale November 14 at noon.
