“A work of enchanting beauty, arresting movement, and inventive intelligence.”
Ashwini Ramaswamy’s Let the Crows Come
Evoking mythography and ancestry, Let the Crows Come uses the metaphor of crows as messengers for the living and guides for the departed. This 60-minute work for three dancers with live music explores how memory and homeland channel guidance and dislocation. Featuring Ramaswamy (Bharatanatyam technique), Alanna Morris-Van Tassel (Contemporary/Afro-Caribbean technique), and Berit Ahlgren (Gaga technique), Bharatanatyam dance is deconstructed and recontextualized to recall a memory that has a shared origin but is remembered differently from person to person. Composers Jace Clayton (dj/rupture) and Brent Arnold extrapolate from Prema Ramamurthy’s original Carnatic (South Indian) score, utilizing centuries-old compositional structures as the point of departure for their sonic explorations. Let the Crows Come is available for touring with NDP touring subsidy.
Let the Crows Come is commissioned by The SPCO’s Liquid Music Series, and is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project , the MAP Fund (supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), and was developed in part during a residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY.