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Finding Home
An intimate studio performance of Bharata Natyam, classical dance of India, and Western modern dance.
Developed around the them Finding Home, the immigrant experience of many is shared through Bharata Natyam, classical dance of India, and Western modern dance.
The performance features new dances by yound choreographer Aravinda Tota, a second generation Indian born and raised in the USA, who has created contemporary works using the wide movement of modern Western dance yet based in the intimacy of Indian Classical dance. Finding Home is a discovery of self as one moves from the original homeland to elsewhere and in this case from India to the USA.
May 4 & 5, 2012
Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Larry Long Studio
1016 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL
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These programs were made possible, in part, through the Ruth Page Center Subsidized Theater Rental Program.
Image: detail from Finding Home #28 by Siona Benjamin.
March - May -- Kalapriya After School Program, Coonley School, Chicago, IL
March - May -- Kalapriya After School Program, University of Chicago Lab School, Chicago, IL
April 10 -- Kalapriya Dancers, Naperville Library, Naperville, IL
April 11 -- Kalapriya co-sponsoring musician Alotte Dutta with Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL
April 22 -- Kalapriya Dancers, Palatine Library, Palatine, IL
May 4 & 5 -- Kalapriya Dancers, Finding Home, Ruth Page Center, Chicago, IL
May 11 -- Kalapriya Dance Performance, John R. Tibbott School, Bolingbrook, IL
May 17 & 19 -- Kalapriya Dance Performance, Passport to India, at Chicago Children's Museum, Chicago, IL
May 20 -- Kalapriya Student Showcase, Avery Coonley Performing Arts Center, Downers Grove, IL
May 25 -- Kalapriya Dance Workshop, Chicago Arts High School, Chicago, IL
June 18 - 29 -- Kalapriya Summer Indian Arts Camp, Chicago, IL
September 22 -- Kalapriya Dancers, Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL
October 12 -- Kalapriya, Dandiya Dances, Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, IL
All programs subject to change.
Past Performances
Some notable Kalapriya performances have been held at:
- Chicago World Music Festival,IL
- Art Institute of Chicago, IL
- Darpana Academy, Ahemdabad, India
- Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
- New York Symphony Center