CHOREOGRAPH YOUR CLASSIC - PART OF THE MYTHOLOGY MAKES US SERIES
Join Ashwini Ramaswamy, lead choreographer of Invisible Cities, and Will McGrath (author, Everything Lost is Found Again, Farewell Transmission) as they discuss her process of adapting Italo Calvino's book as a multi-faceted dance performance (premieres January 27 and 28, 2023). Long an inspiration for artists of many disciplines, Calvino's 1973 novel is a meditation on the environments all around us. The Invisible Cities performance will evoke the book's themes through movement communicated via four dance traditions: Bharatanatyam (Classical Indian), Modern/African Diasporic, Breaking, and Gaga, as Syrian-American digital artist Kevork Mourad fills the space with live illustrations. Hear from Ramaswamy and the other lead choreographers Alanna Morris, Berit Ahlgren, and Joseph 'MN Joe' Tran as they describe their process of finding cohesion and harmony among the myriad perspectives they bring to their work.
January 19, 2023