@CPR | Rovaco Dance Party 2025

PROGRAM

5:00 PM | Doors Open + Social Hour with Refreshments

6:00 PM | Performances + Dance Party

presents their seventh annual Rovaco Dance Party. This evening of live music, dance, theater, and cultural exchange begins with an informal social hour inspired by Indian hospitality traditions. Guests are served complementary Indian snacks prepared by Chef Ashmita Biswas alongside alcoholic beverages and sparkling waters, a brand that celebrates bold Asian flavors. After the social mixer, transition into the theater for live music and dance performances, curated and MC’ed by Rovaco's Artistic Director Rohan Bhargava. The evening ends with a DJ dance party for all!

CREDITS

Rovaco Dance Artists

Choreography: Rohan Bhargava in collaboration with dancers

Performers: Nico Gonzales, Devika Chandnani, Siddharth Dutta, Karma Chuki, and Isabele Rosso

Resident Dramaturg & Script Consultant: Mahima Saigal

Resident Composer: Saúl Guanipa

Guest Artists

Sitar & Live Looping Soloist:

Kanklės & Sitar Duo: &

DJ:

Chef: Ashmita Biswas

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

was founded in New York City in 2015 by Artistic Director Rohan Bhargava. Over the years, the company has produced a unique form of narrative dance-theater, which blends floorwork, release, ballet, bollywood, street jazz, bhangra, and contemporary partnering into one fluid whole, in multimedia collaboration with designers and composers. Repertory has been presented by Provincetown Dance Festival, Dance NYC, Battery Dance Festival, Rhythmically Speaking, Little Island NYC, and Create:Art. The company has been a Resident Artist at Dancewave, the James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, and the CUNY Dance Initiative at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. Commissions have come from Mannes School of Music, Mare Nostrum Elements, Making Moves Dance Festival, and The Dance Gallery Festival.

SUPPORT

Rovaco Dance Party is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. In-kind donations have been provided by Sanzo, a sparkling water brand that celebrates bold Asian flavors, made with real fruit and no artificial flavors. Marketing and logistical support is provided by Mare Nostrum Elements as part of the company's 25th anniversary celebration and their signature Emerging Choreographer Series program.

Donations to Rovaco Dance Company can be made through Fractured Atlas, and are fully tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. If you are unable to attend the event but would like to support, you can make an online donation HERE.

Photo Credit: Steven Pisano Photography

Image Description: A group of five dancers create a montage in a warmly lit white-box theater, all wearing red Kurtas and yellow dupattas that are draped and tied in various ways around their bodies. At the base, one dancer crouches on hands and knees while three other dancers sit or lean against their back in different poses. To the left, a dancer kneels with arms extended and fingers splayed, narrating or presenting the montage with a sassy and sarcastic expression.

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