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Featuring\u00a0Ashwini\u00a0Ramaswamy (Bharatanatyam technique), Alanna Morris-Van Tassel (Contemporary\/African\u00a0Diasporic 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\u2019s classical Carnatic (South Indian) score, utilizing centuries-old compositional structures as the point of departure for their sonic explorations.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The foundation of\u00a0Ramaswamy\u2019s\u00a0work and aesthetic begins with decades of dance training with her gurus\u2014her mother,\u00a0Ranee\u00a0Ramaswamy;\u00a0sister Aparna Ramaswamy (directors of Ragamala Dance Company);\u00a0and the legendary\u00a0Alarmel\u00a0Valli of Chennai, India\u2014to uphold the balance between technical rigor, physicality, grace, and expressive authenticity that is the hallmark of their Bharatanatyam lineage.\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">The New York Times<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0describes\u00a0Ramaswamy\u00a0as \u201cweaving together, both fearfully and joyfully, the human and the divine\u00a0\u2026\u00a0there is a continual flow of energy coursing through her limbs.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">As a founding member of Ragamala Dance Company,\u00a0Ramaswamy\u00a0has toured extensively, performing throughout the United States\u00a0and in Russia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan, the\u00a0United Kingdom, and India, highlighted by performances at The Joyce Theater and Lincoln Center Out of Doors (New York\u00a0City), the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), American Dance Festival (Durham, North Carolina), Music Center of Los Angeles, the Festival of Arts and Ideas (New Haven, Connecticut), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Bali Arts Festival, National Centre for Performing Arts (Mumbai, India), and Krishna Gana Sabha (Chennai, India).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">As a soloist,\u00a0Ramaswamy\u00a0has performed at the Just Festival (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), the Ritz Theater (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Northrop (Minneapolis), Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota), the Drive East Festival, and Erasing Borders Festival (New York\u00a0City), and her choreographic work has been presented by Augsburg College, the Red Eye Theater, and the Cowles Center (Minneapolis); Triskelion Arts\u00a0and\u00a0The Joyce Theater (New York\u00a0City);\u00a0The Just Festival (Edinburgh);\u00a0and The Yard (Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, Massachusetts).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This presentation of\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Let the Crows Come<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0by\u00a0Ashwini\u00a0Ramaswamy was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts&#8217; National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. 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