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How are powerful women celebrated? Who defines what that power should look like? These are just a couple of the many questions Mythili Prakash explores in her evening-length dance “She’s Auspicious,” at the Dance Center of Columbia College, September 26-27. Los Angeles-based Prakash got connected to Dance Center through Kalapriya Center for Indian Performing Arts in 2022, which flew Prakash and her collaborators out to do a tech residency while the piece was in development. Now they are back in Chicago with the final piece, which features live original music and an approach that tests the confines of classical Indian dance.
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Tristan Bruns, See Chicago Dance
Polluted waterways and domestic violence are somber topics, but they underscore Kalapriya’s mission to raise awareness about important issues through storytelling and dance, inspiring change in people’s hearts and minds.
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