Ananya Dance Theatre | Monday | Nov 7 | 7:30 PM

Choreographed by Ananya Chatterjea and performed by the artists of Ananya Dance Theatre, Dastak features the work of a powerful team of collaborators, including writer and dramaturg Sharon Bridgforth, and sound artist Spirit McIntyre who performs live in this powerful dance piece.

Dastak is a meditation on borders, loss, belonging, home, and liberation. Structured through four elemental journeys, Earth, Water, Fire, and Air, the work traces the knockings (dastak, in Farsi) of global injustices on our hearts, and echoes the subtitle created by writer Sharon Bridgforth – I Wish You Me – indicating the cross-generational love that has carried communities through difficult migrations. Dastak invites viewers to imagine what freedom is possible as it expands the realms of intention and trans-dimensional connection through spells that invoke rest, forgiveness, love, and freedom.

“Ananya Dance Theatre Lights a Fire at Kingsbury Hall” _ Utah's Art Magazine

Dastak is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, in partnership with the Bates Dance Festival, Lewiston, ME, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org. Dastak was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dastak was developed with support from the Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Initiative funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Dastak is supported by Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The development of Dastak was made possible, in part, by the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Metro Regional Arts Council and the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. Dastak is supported by grants from the Marbrook Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College Street, Lewiston, United States