Children of Dharma

Name: Children of Dharma
Start: 2025-03-21T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60601

Schedule

Fri, 21 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60601 | Chicago, IL

Ragamala Dance Company returns to the Harris Theater with Children of Dharma, a new evening-length piece that builds upon decades of the company’s pioneering work. Centering ancestral wisdom, artistic excellence, and creativity to contextualize the immigrant experience, Ragamala Dance Company continues to uphold dance as a spiritual practice that can inspire, heal, and transform communities.
Created by company founder and Co-Artistic Director Ranee Ramaswamy with her daughters, Executive Artistic Director Aparna Ramaswamy and Choreographic Associate Ashwini Ramaswamy, Children of Dharma reveals the rippling effects of dharma, or “right action,” wordlessly through the body.The work provokes a visceral response to crises over the ages, from environmental devastation and oppression to unjust wars. Why does war unleash the animal in man? What have we done to our relationship with the natural world? In response to these questions, the power of ancient cultures is vitally relevant — to connect us to our ancestors, to harmonize, to heal, and to reaffirm the existence of beauty and truth.