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RAGAMALA DANCE COMPANY PERFORMING SACRED EARTH Saturday, November 12, 2016 7:30PM Kingsbury Hall Opening performances by ChitraKaavya Dance and Nitya Nritya Dance Company

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Ragamala Dance Company Ragamala Dance Company Sacred Earth Concept and Choreography Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy Original Artwork Anil Chaitya Vangad (Warli) Ranee Ramaswamy (Kolam) Original Compositions Prema Ramamurthy with additional compositions by Rajkumar Bharati and Rajna Swaminathan Development of Score Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy with Lalit Subramanian, Anjna Swaminathan, and Rajna Swaminathan Dancers Ranee Ramaswamy, Aparna Ramaswamy, Ashwini Ramaswamy, Tamara Nadel, Jessica Fiala Musical Ensemble Lalit Subramanian (vocal), Puneet Panda (nattuvangam), Rohan Krishnamurthy (mridangam), Anjna Swaminathan (violin) Light Design Jeff Bartlett Video Projection Design Perimeter Productions (Robert C. Hammel, Michele Blanchard, Caitlin Hammel) Lighting Supervisor/Production Manager Mat Terwilliger Sound Engineer Maury Jensen

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About Sacred Earth ABOUT SACRED EARTH Sacred Earth explores the interconnectedness between human emotions and the environment that shapes them. Inspired by the philosophies behind the ephemeral arts of kolam and Warli painting and the Tamil Sangam literature of India, Sacred Earth brings both internal and external landscapes to life. Each morning, women in southeastern India perform the silent ritual of kolam, making rice flour designs on the ground as conscious offerings to Mother Earth. This daily ritual creates a sacred space and becomes a link between the intimate home and the vastness of the outside world. The indigenous Warli people of western India revere the land and live in perfect coexistence with nature. Using their everyday lives as inspiration, their dynamic wall paintings find the spiritual in the everyday. For the Tamil Sangam poets of South India, the Earth was sacred. Recognizing that human activities are interwoven with all of creation, they drew parallels between inner and outer landscape and used the natural world as a metaphor to examine the intricacies of human emotion. As Sacred Earth builds from silent, meditative beginnings, the performers create a sacred space to honor the divinity in the natural world and the sustenance we derive from it. We surrender to the beauty of this sacred earth that has been given to us to safeguard, cherish, and pass on to our future generations.

THE POETRY OF SACRED EARTH The Tamil Sangam poets (300 B.C.E. – 300 C.E.) saw divinity in the physical world, which they divided into five tinais (landscapes): kurinji (mountainous region), mullai (forest), neythal (seaside), marutham (farmland), and paalai (desert). Recognizing that human activities are interwoven with all of creation, they drew parallels between inner landscape and outer landscape and used the natural world as a metaphor to examine the intricacies of human emotion. The tinais thus become more than geographical realms. Each region’s particular qualities—flora and fauna, climate and seasons, music and culture, people and daily life—are interwoven with the area’s emotional tones to create a distinct portrait of mood and setting. Characters in Sangam literature are never named, rather they represent ideals—paradigms of the human condition.

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The Poetry of Sacred Earth Lakshmi Stuthi Soloist: Aparna Ramaswamy An invocation in praise of the Goddess Lakshmi Excerpts from the Paripattal: Soloist: Aparna Ramaswamy Endure forever, O beauteous Land! May the Clouds never fail but ever pour In plenty, so that the River great May never be dry but ever full. Kurinji: Soloist: Aparna Ramaswamy Bigger than the earth, certainly, Higher than the sky. More unfathomable than the waters Is this love for this man Of the mountain slopes Where bees make rich honey From the flowers of the kurinji That has such black stalks –Tevakulattar, Kurunthokai 3 Mullai: Soloist: Ranee Ramaswamy On his hills The manai creeper that usually sprawls On large round stones Sometimes takes to a sleeping elephant At parting, His arms twine with mine He gave me guarantees That he would live in my heart Forever Friend, why do you think That is any reason for grieving? –Paranar, Kurunthokai 36 Neythal: Soloist: Aparna Ramaswamy I am here: My loveliness Eaten away by pallor Is lost in the woods by the sea. My lover is comfortable in his hometown.

All the guarded secrets of our love Are all over the village square –Venputhi, Kurunthokai 97 Marutham: Soloist: Tamara Nadel There was a time when My friend gave you Bitter neem fruit and You called it Sweet lump of sugar. But now she gives you Sweet water From the ice-cool springs Of Pari’s hill And you call it hot and brackish. Is this the way Your love has gone? –Milai Kanthan, Kurunthokai 196 Kurinji: Soloist: Ashwini Ramaswamy What could my mother be To yours? What kin is my father To yours anyway? And how Did you and I meet ever? But in love our hearts are as red Earth and pouring rain: Mingled Beyond Parting –Cempulappeyanirar, Kurunthokai 40 “Prithvi Suktam” (Hymn to the Earth), from the Adharva Veda: Soloist: Aparna Ramaswamy May this Earth, whose surface undulates with many gradients, and sustains an abundant variety of herbs and plants of different potencies and qualities, support all human beings, in all their diversity of endowment, in mutually supportive harmony and prosperity

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About the Company ABOUT RAGAMALA DANCE COMPANY Under the direction of Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy, Ragamala creates work that conveys a sense of reverence, of unfolding mystery, of universal celebration. Now in its 24th season, Ragamala has been hailed by The New York Times as, “soulful, imaginative and rhythmically contagious.” Ragamala has toured extensively, highlighted by the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Lincoln Center (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, International Festival of Arts & Ideas (New Haven, CT), Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Just Festival (Edinburgh, U.K.), Bali Arts Festival (Indonesia), Sri Krishna Gana Sabha (Chennai, India), and National Centre for Performing Arts (Mumbai, India). For upcoming tour dates in the U.S. and abroad, or to subscribe to Ragamala’s e-newsletter, please visit, www.ragamaladance.org • 612-824-1968 • info@ragamala.net

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About the Artists RANEE RAMASWAMY and APARNA RAMASWAMY are Artistic Directors, Choreographers, and Principal Dancers of Ragamala Dance Company, founded by Ranee in 1992. As dancemakers and performers, they explore the dynamic tension between the ancestral and the contemporary, making dance landscapes that dwell in opposition—secular and spiritual life, inner and outer worlds, the human and the natural, 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 perspectives as Indian-American artists. As protégés and senior disciples of legendary dancer and choreographer Alarmél Valli, known as one of India’s greatest living masters, Ranee and Aparna’s training in the South Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam is the bedrock of their creative aesthetic. Ranee and Aparna’s work is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Dance Project, MAP Fund, The McKnight Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New Music/USA, USArtists International, and the Japan Foundation, and has been commissioned by the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Lincoln Center Out of Doors (New York), the Krannert Center (University of Illinois), the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (University of Maryland), Opening Nights Performing Arts (Florida State University), the Arts Center at NYU-Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), and the American Composers Forum. Ranee and Aparna were jointly named “2011 Artist of the Year” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. They have developed work in residence at the MANCC (the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography), at NYU Abu Dhabi, and during an NPN residency at The Yard. Ranee currently serves on the National Council on the Arts, appointed by President Barack Obama. She is recipient of a 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a 2012 United States Artists Fellowship, a 2011 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, a Bush Fellowship for Choreography, and 14 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Choreography and Interdisciplinary Art. Aparna is recipient of a 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a 2016 Joyce Award. Described by The New York Times as “thrillingly three-dimensional… rapturous and profound,” she has received three McKnight Artist Fellowships for Dance and Choreography and a Bush Fellowship for Choreography, and was selected as one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch for 2010. Her solo work, presented with live music, has toured the U.S. and India with support from the National Dance Project and USArtists International, most recently at Narada Gana Sabha (Chennai), the National Centre for Performing Arts (Mumbai, India), and The Joyce Theater (New York). Aparna is an empaneled artist with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and serves on the Board of Trustees of Dance/USA.

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About the Artists ANIL CHAITYA VANGAD is a traditional painter of the adivasi (indigenous) Warli craft, which has been in his family for three generations. Since 1991, his work has been exhibited at prominent festivals, museums and arts centers throughout India and abroad, highlighted by the Mumbai Festival, Government Craft Museum (New Delhi), Sarojini Naidu Hall (Hyderabad), Swobhumi Craft Mela (Calcutta), La Galerie de la Tour (Lyon, France), Prairie Center for the Arts (Chicago, USA), Santa Fe Folk Art Market (New Mexico, USA), and the Gallery on the Corner (Edinburgh, UK). His many commissions include murals at the Bank of Muskat (Banglore), and the home of the Chairman of the Bhoruka Corporation (Bangalore). In 2011, Anil was commissioned by Ragamala to spend six weeks in residence in Minneapolis, MN, USA, creating large-scale paintings to be incorporated as projections in Sacred Earth. In 2014, he received a Certificate of Excellence from the World Craft Council. He resides in the village of Ganjad in Maharashtra, India. addiwashi.blogspot.com SMT. PREMA RAMAMURTHY has been an outstanding vocalist and composer for more than four decades. She was initiated into music by her parents, the Late Sri S. Nagaraja Iyer and Smt. Jayalakshmi, and her grandfather, Sri S. Srinivasa Iyer. Ms. Ramamurthy has had further intensive training under the great Maestro ‘Padmavibhushan’ Dr. Mangalampalli Balamurali Krishna. She has also specialized in the art of ‘Pallavi singing’ from Vidwan Sri T. V. Gopalakrishnan, and has learned the art of singing ‘Padams & Javalis’ from the veteran musician, Mrs. T. Muktha. Ms. Ramamurthy is an A-TOP Grade Artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan TV. She has won critical acclaim as a composer, and has performed in many of the top venues and festivals of India, the US, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, Mexico, and South Africa. RAGAMALA DANCE COMPANY

JESSICA FIALA has been studying with Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy since 2006 and has toured with Ragamala throughout the U.S. and to India, the U.K., and the UAE. She is a teacher at the Ragamala School and has led and supported outreach activities across the United States, as well as teaching a 2013 workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. Jessica holds an interdisciplinary master’s degree from the University of Minnesota in Museum Studies & Cultural Studies and her writing has ranged from Bharatanatyam to museum history and public art. She has presented research at conferences at the University of Naples “l’Orientale” (2013), the University of Shanghai (2016), and the University of Pittsburgh (2016). This fall she will participate on a debut panel for the conference Beyond Authenticity and Appropriation, organized by the Society of Dance History Scholars. Her writing on museums is included in the anthology The Ruined Archive (2014) and she was Research Coordinator for the 2015 International Award for Public Art. Jessica is a Program Coordinator at Forecast Public Art and a Research Associate at Lutman & Associates. ROHAN KRISHNAMURTHY has been described as a “musical ambassador” and “pride of India” by The Times of India, and “international mridangam player” by USA Today. He is one of the most prominent and versatile percussionists in the world music scene. He specializes in the popular Indian hand drum, the mridangam, and received advanced training from the esteemed master, Guruvayur Dorai. Rohan has performed hundreds of concerts internationally since the age of nine and has become distinguished as a soloist, composer, and collaborator in a multitude of music and dance ensembles. Rohan earned his Ph.D. in musicology from the Eastman

About the Artists School of Music in New York. Based in San Francisco, Rohan has recently shared stages with legendary Indian musicians such as M. Balamuralikrishna and L. Subramaniam, and collaborated with popular and Grammy Award-winning artists such as Glen Velez, Anoushka Shankar, and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. Rohan directs the award-winning RohanRhythm Percussion Studio, which has attracted dozens of students across four continents, both in-person and online. Rohan received a patent for his new drum tuning system, which is now available worldwide. www. RohanRhythm.com â&#x20AC;&#x2039;

TAMARA NADEL is a disciple of Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy and a founding member of Ragamala. She has toured extensively with Ragamala, highlighted by Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, American Dance Festival, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Just Festival (Edinburgh, U.K.), National Centre for Performing Arts (Mumbai, India), and Sri Krishna Gana Sabha (Chennai, India). Tamara is a McKnight Artist Fellow in Dance, and is a recipient of grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Rimon: the Minnesota Jewish Arts Council, and a Travel Study

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About the Artists Grant from the Jerome Foundation. She is currently working with choreographer Ranee Ramaswamy on a solo work rooted in the poetry of the Sephardic Jewish writers of medieval southern Spain. Tamara is Ragamala’s Director of Institutional Development, and holds a degree in Religious Studies and Dance from Macalester College. She served on the City of Minneapolis Arts Commission from 2008-2010, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. PUNEET PANDA is a vibrant performer with a classical, creative, and sincere approach to his craft, and an effervescent joy for the inner realm of Bharatanatyam. Critics have applauded his rare combination

of energy and elegance while staying true to the tradition-bound purity of his Gurus, the Dhananjayans. Having worked with many leading artists as both a performer and an orchestra member, he is thrilled to be part of this unique production, providing nattuvangam support in today’s program. ASHWINI RAMASWAMY has studied Bharatanatyam with Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy—her mother and sister—since the age of five. She now has the honor of studying under Bharatanatyam legend Alarmél Valli, one of the greatest living masters of the form. The New York Times describes Ashwini as “imbuing her refined, sculptural muscularity with a tranquility that contrasts with the springy exuberance of her feet…there is a continual flow of

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About the Artists energy coursing through her limbs.” She has toured extensively with Ragamala, performing throughout the U.S. and in Russia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, the U.K, and India. Ashwini is a McKnight Artist Fellow for Dance, as well as the recipient of two Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grants, a Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Next Step Fund grant, and a Jerome Foundation Travel Study Grant. She is an emerging choreographer whose work has been presented by the Ritz Theater (Minneapolis, MN), the Red Eye Theater (Minneapolis, MN), and Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn, NY). Ashwini is Ragamala’s Director of Publicity and Marketing, and holds a degree in English Literature from Carleton College. She currently serves on the board of Arts Midwest.

development scores and providing musical accompaniment for dancers and dance companies, most notably, Ragamala Dance Company (Minneapolis) as well as Ragamala’s principal dancer and soloist, Aparna Ramaswamy. Anjna was commissioned to compose original music for playwright/performer Anu Yadav’s (Washington, D.C.) one-woman-play Meena’s Dream. In the summer of 2014, she was a participant at the celebrated Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in Alberta, Canada. Anjna recently came under the tutelage of acclaimed Carnatic vocalist and scholar, T.M. Krishna. Anjna holds a Bachelors degree in Theatre from the University of Maryland, College Park. www. anjnaswaminathan.com

LALIT SUBRAMANIAN is a vocalist in the Indian classical style of music and is proficient in both the South Indian (Carnatic) and North Indian (Hindustani) styles. He is the disciple of renowned Carnatic musicians Tiruvarur Sri S. Girish and Neyveli Sri R. Santhanagopalan, and renowned Hindustani musician Pandit Shekhar Kumbhojkar. Lalit has won many awards and performs at various venues in the U.S. and India, both as a solo vocalist and as an accompanist for dance performances. He has been a junior artiste at All India Radio as a Hindustani vocalist, and holds a graduate degree in Carnatic music from India. Lalit has been working with Ragamala since 2008.

JEFF BARTLETT has been honored to light Ragamala Dance Company since A Canticle of Mary in 1994. He has lit many of the company’s signature works, including Written in Water, Song of the Jasmine, Sacred Earth, 1,001 Buddhas: Journey of the Gods, Yathra/Journey, The Transposed Heads, Body and Soul, Bhakti, Sthree, and Ihrah. A dance lighting specialist based in Minneapolis, Jeff has lit scores of artists in hundreds of productions over more than two decades. A 2008 Artist of the Year in City Pages magazine, his design work has also been recognized with a 2015 St Paul Cultural Star award, a 2014 Knight Arts Challenge Grant, 2010 and 2005 Sage Awards for Dance, and a 2003 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship. Jeff is Production Manager and resident lighting designer at the Weitz Center for Creativity at Carleton College.

ANJNA SWAMINATHAN is an emerging artist in the field of Carnatic violin. A disciple of the late violin maestro Parur Sri M.S. Gopalakrishnan and Mysore Sri H.K. Narasimhamurthy, she has been trained in both Carnatic classical and Western classical styles. She frequently takes part in interdisciplinary collaborations, often assisting in the

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The creation of Sacred Earth was made possible in part with funds provided by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Additional support for Ragamala’s work comes from The Dr. Dash Foundation, whose mission is to preserve and promote the rich heritage and culture of India, The McKnight Foundation, Target, the

General Mills Foundation, the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant (thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund), and the generous support of Ragamala’s “Rasika Circle,” including Jay Wilkinson and Karen Covington, The Goodale Family Foundation, the Dale Schatzlein and Emily Maltz Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation, Ranee Ramaswamy and David McKay, Wallace and Margaret McKay, María and Mark Nadel, and Sara Daggett and Bryan Ziegler.

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Opening Performers NITYA NRITYA DANCE COMPANY Nitya Nritya Dance company is a young SLC based Bharatanatyam performance and training company. An important goal of the company is to generate and nurture an interest in the classical dance form of Bharatanatyam and to present its versatility and sophistication to the audiences in the Salt Lake Valley.

performs a traditional repertoire and also collaborates to create new and interesting dance items that can be relevant, accessible and add to the rich tapestry of Dance in the Salt Lake Valley. ChitraKaavya seeks to foster innovation and excellence in this dance form, and nurture intercultural conversations using the medium of performing arts.

Pushpanjali and Khandam Alaripu Choreography: Jyothsna Sainath Dancers: Jyothsna Sainath, Moumita Bhattacharya, Maya Jammulapati, and Arundhati Oommen

The Hidden Choreography: Erica Womack, Elizabeth Stitch, Raksha Karpoor, Srilatha Singh Dancers: Erica Womack, Elizabeth Stitch, Raksha Karpoor, Srilatha Singh

The Pushpanjali is a traditional floral offering to the stage. It is typically performed as an opening piece that sets the mood for the artistic experience that follows. Nitya Nritya Dance company presents a Pushpanjali in a melody called Andolika, that is set to a beat cycle of 8. This piece is a composition of percussionist G. Gurumurthy. It will be immediately followed by an Alaripu in a beat cycle of 5 which is choreographed to celebrate the majestic beauty of the mountains that surround the Salt Lake Valley.

A collaborative effort between Modern dance and Bharatanatyam, this is a crossover piece set to music that also crosses over between traditional South Indian Carnatic music and Jazz. The theme of the sung verses is the illumination of the self, that finds what it seeks “Hidden” within itself. Like flame inherent in wood, like gold inherent in rock, like oil inherent in the sesame seed, the Godhood one seeks is hidden within oneself.

Maha Deva Shiva Choreography: Guru Bhanumathi, with modifications by Jyothsna Sainath Dancers: Jyothsna Sainath The second piece is an ode to Lord Shiva, the dancing deity of the Hindu Pantheon. The piece juxtaposes the vigorous dancing and the meditative serenity of Lord Shiva. It is in a melody called Revathi and set to a beat cycle of 8. CHITRAKAAVYA DANCE ChitraKaavya Dance was founded by Srilatha Singh, to explore her abiding interest in Bharatanatyam. The company

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Legacy Choreography: Srilatha Singh Dancers: Raksha Karpoor, Srilatha Singh, Chandana Palukuri, Shrivatsav Pattabhiraman, Trevor Wilde In this item we are exploring contemporary English poetry “For the Courageous” by Alixa, through the vocabulary of Bharatanatyam, to illustrate the universality and versatility of this traditional art form. Three verses of English poetry are recited and each is followed by a dance vignette set to varying music. The dominant narrative of the poem refers to the legacy inherited by those whose ancestors have been courageous, resilient, and generous in spirit, enough to overcome, prevail and forgive.