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Manual Cinema Ragamala Dance + Mementos Mori Jan 15–18, 2015 Song of the Jasmine Apr 10–12, 2015 Stan’s Cafe The Cardinals International Contemporary Ensem- Jan 22–24, 2015 ble (ICE): Anna Thorvaldsdottir In the Light of Air Sònia Sánchez Apr 26, 2015 Le Ça (The Id) Feb 13–15, 2015 Creative Music Summit: Nicole Mitchell Mariano Pensotti May 2, 2015 Cineastas (Filmmakers) Renée Baker Feb 26–Mar 1, 2015 May 3, 2015

Joffrey Academy of Dance Third Coast Percussion with Winning Works: Choreographers Glenn Kotche of Color Wild Sound Mar 7–8, 2015 May 21–22, 2015

The Seldoms Power Goes Mar 20–29, 2015 Ragamala Dance + Rudresh Mahanthappa Song of the Jasmine Apr 10–12, 2015 Photo: Darial Sneed Darial Photo:

Aparna Ramaswamy: Concept Light Design: Jeff Bartlett Set Design: Concept by Aparna Ramaswamy and Ranee Ramaswamy and Ranee Ramaswamy: Aparna Ramaswamy Creation and Choreography Architectural Design: Anjali Ganapathy Rudresh Mahanthappa: Technical Direction: Jeff Bartlett Music Composition and Louise Robinson Bell procurement by Anju Dancers Kataria and Khazana Gallery Aparna Ramaswamy Sound Design: Maury Jensen Ranee Ramaswamy Lighting Supervisor/Production Ashwini Ramaswamy Manager: Mat Terwilliger Tamara Nadel Stage Manager: Elise Erickson Jessica Fiala

Ensemble Rudresh Mahanthappa, Edlis Neeson alto saxophone Theater , guitar Rajna Swaminathan, Raman Kalyan, Carnatic flute Anjna Swaminathan, Running time is seventy-five Carnatic violin minutes with no intermission. Generous support for MCA Dance is provided by David Herro and Jay Franke. Touring support for Ragamala Dance and Rudresh Mahanthappa: Song of the Jasmine is 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, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Support for Song of the Jasmine is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts; the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; New Music/USA’s Commissioning Music/USA program, made possible with generous annual support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and endowment support from The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The F. Whitaker Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trust; the RBC Foundation USA; The McKnight Foundation; Target; the General Mills Foundation; the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund; Ragamala’s Board of Directors Institutional Growth Fund; the generous support of Ragamala’s “Rasika Circle,” including Prakash and Usha Asirvatham, The Goodale Family Foundation, the Dale Schatzlein and Emily Maltz Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation, Ranee Ramaswamy and David McKay, Wallace and Margaret McKay, and Anonymous; and Friends of Ragamala. Song of the Jasmine premiered at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in May of 2014. Walker Art Center, Lead Commissioner and Developmental Partner; Krannert Center for the Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lead Commissioner; Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, Co-commissioner; Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Co-commissioner. Ranee Ramaswamy and and musicians, moderated by Yolanda Ashwini Ramaswamy Artists Up Close Photo: Alice Gebura Cesta Cursach, Associate Director of MCA Stage’s series of artist-centered Performance Programs. talks, workshops, and open studios engages the public with the artists MCA Studio: Master Class in intimate settings and provides a April 11, 1–3 pm closer look at the creative process. Aparna and Ranee Ramaswamy draw Join us today. on the philosophy, spirituality, and myth of their South Indian heritage as well MCA Studio as their keen experience with Earlier this week, as part of the Open improvisation and music in this master Doors program, museum visitors were class. Aparna is the first Bharatanatyam invited inside the theater to observe artist to be named by Dance Magazine the artists working on the production. as one among the “25 to Watch.” She recently gave a solo performance MCA Talk at the Music Academy in — First Night one of India’s most prestigious dance April 10 venues. Ranee is a 2012 United Audience members are invited to stay States Artists Fellow, recognized for at the end of the performance for a cross-cultural collaborations with, conversation with Aparna and Ranee among others, the poet Robert Bly. Ramaswamy, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Rez Abbasi (guitar), tion of genres. and Indian music Rudresh Mahanthappa From the Artists (saxophone) V. K. by Aparna and Ranee Ramaswamy are often regarded as similar forms Raman (South Indian flute) for engaging improvisation at their core. Photo: Praba As mother and daughter, we bring While this is the case, compositional Manivasagar different generational experiences to strategies that seamlessly embrace creating dance. The rich traditions, both traditions with integrity and philosophical roots, and ancestral depth are a welcome and meaningful wis­dom of India meet and merge with challenge. Song of the Jasmine is the curiosity, openness, and creative unique in bringing contemporary freedom that come with living in music’s improvisational technique to the US. Song of the Jasmine combines the Bharatanatyam tradition, with every jazz and by way of performance markedly different from freely moving between the past and night to night. the present. The creation of this work is also a true In this work, we delve into the concept collaboration in that the choreography of longing through the lens of recollec- and music are constructed simul­ tion, appeal and total surrender. taneously in constant artistic dialogue, The jasmine, which in Indian tradition as opposed to one form working traverses the world of man and in subservience of the other. the world of the gods, conjures these Composition in general, with regard to emotions, embodying the spiritual both music and dance, has always and the sensual that we understand to been an effective means of communi- be the lifeblood of the Indian psyche. cating the diasporic scenario. This work adds to the greater conversa- As Indian-Americans along with our tion of multiculturalism while enhancing collaborator Rudresh Mahnathappa, and elevating the definition of we are invested in moving heritage American identity for present and future forms beyond the superficial juxtaposi- generations. About the Work and my long javelin eyes have not closed their lids for these many Song of the Jasmine explores the days. I am tossed on the waves of interconnectedness of the spiritual, the sea of pain without finding the sensual, and the natural that is the the boat that is named the Lord of life­blood of the Indian psyche. the highest realm. The writings of the eighth century Tamil mystic poet Andal, whose Sacred My vow to him courses through my Sayings of the Goddess erases body like a ripened blossom strung any dichotomy between the sacred and on your bow to release with keening the personal, guided the collaborators. motion the name of the only one These texts express deep longing, capable of ocean-breaths dotted anguish, ecstasy, and the desire with song cleaved from between to merge the soul with the Supreme beaks. Draw the bow at me, loosen- Consciousness. The intensity of ing braids of reason until I am an emotion in the poetry inspired a dyn- untied string without a knot . . . amic world of contemporary interpretive possibility. As bi-national artists, I have nothing left to give. I've Aparna and Ranee Ramaswamy, along expended all at Govinda's feet, who with Rudresh Mahanthappa, are while dancing . . . plucked the stem committed to entwining Indian and of me in such heightened state. American artistic genres to speak to the Frozen in ecstasy, is it fair to be cultural fluidity of today’s hybrid further tormented? If the blazing lord reality. They seek to free themselves of Arangam fnds kindling of virtue, and their audiences so that they can then he will reveal what's outside approach the poetic, visual, and himself inside me. aural elements of the work as prisms— different upon each viewing. —Translations by Subramanya Bharathi and the poet Shankar Song of the Jasmine was born of a close collaboration in which the choreo­ About the mystic poet Andal graphy and the music were constructed Andal refused to marry any mortal simultaneously in a constant artistic man–Krishna was the sole object of her dialogue that spanned more than a year. affection. Her feverish urgency to unite with Him is likened to the unbearable Selections from “Nachiar Tirumozhi” urgency of a fsh out of water. It is said that He was so pleased with her . . . the state of bliss attained by the devotion that He appeared to her father total surrender of body, mind and in a dream, instructing him to bring soul, or Atma, to the Paramatman, Andal to the temple at Srirangam or the Divine Existence in southern India. Legend says that the moment she entered the sanctum of He has invaded my heart; and while the temple, she was surrounded by a I pine and sigh for his love, He looks blaze of light and was absorbed on indifferent as if it were all a play. into the image of Vishnu. She was only I feel as if my bones had melted away ffteen years old. Creative Music Summit: Renée Baker May 3

Renée Baker Theater Sunyata: Towards Absolute Emptiness Forward-thinking violinist and composer Renée Dance Baker finds inspiration in one of the earliest Buddhist Music writings to reach Tibet, The Book of the Dead $22 tickets by (The Bardo), in this chamber opera with dance, using code DANCE at the commissioned by the MCA. Baker and her magnetic Buy online at Edlis Chicago Modern Orchestra Project are joined mcachicago.org by vocalists Dee Alexander, Ann Ward, Saalik Ziyad, Neeson and Taalib-din Ziyad, and other special guests. Photo: Michael S. Baker Theater About the Artists (2011); the trio Continuous Beat (2012), with John Hebert and Satoshi Takeishi; Rez Abbasi and his 2014 recording by the Rez is active as a musician of South Asian Abbasi Acoustic Quartet (RAAQ). and Western jazz forms. He performs with a range of groups such as Rudresh Jeff Bartlett Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition and has served as lighting designer for Kinsmen, and the Indian Juno-award Ragamala Dance since 1994’s A winning vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia’s Canticle of Mary. Additional lighting ensemble. In 2013, Abbasi was voted design for the company includes Top Rising Star Guitarist by Downbeat’s Sacred Earth, 1,001 Buddhas: Journey International Critic's Poll. He has of the Gods, Yathra/Journey, The released several albums as band Transposed Heads, Body and Soul, leader. His quintet, Invocation, features Bhakti, Sthree, and Ihrah. His lighting Mahanthappa, , , design in Minneapolis spans more Johannes Weidenmueller, and Kiran than two decades and four hundred Ahluwalia in its debut Things To Come productions, and has been recognized (2009), which was included in Down- with 2010 and 2005 Sage Awards for beat’s Best Albums of the Decade. The Dance, a 2008 Artist of the Year listing same year he received the prestigious in City Pages, and a 2003 McKnight Chamber Music America NJW grant Theater Artist Fellowship. He is produc- to compose for his quintet, with a focus tion manager at the Weitz Center for on the Pakistan music form Qawwali. Creativity at Carleton College. Additional releases include Suno Suno Photo: Darial Sneed Top left: sixty recordings and DVDs, including Photo: Alice Gebura Music for Deep Meditation, which was Bottom right: number one on the iTunes world music Photo: Darial Sneed charts and remained in the top fifty for six months. His prolific music record- ings include commercial releases, Indian cinema, and the documentary by Martha Graham The Flute of Krishna. He also composes for live dance and theater productions. He received the Best Flautist Award by the Madras Music Academy for performances at the December Music Festival 2009 and 2013. For the Miles from India project, Jessica Fiala which toured to Paris, he performed began training with Ranee Ramaswamy with Glen Velez (Grammy winner) and Aparna Ramaswamy in 2006 and Dave Liebman (Grammy winner), Pt. has toured with Ragamala throughout Vishwamohan Bhatt (Grammy winner), the US and to India and the UK, includ- Mandolin Shrinivas, Selvaganesh ing performances at the Kennedy (Remember Shakti), Darryl Jones Center, the American Dance Festival, (Rolling Stones), John Beasley and the Soorya Festival. Outside of the (Finding Nemo). He has also toured to company, she has studied rhythm tap the Montreal Jazz Festival and and modern dance and continues to San Francisco Jazz Festival. He has perform with choreographers Kaleena performed with South Indian music Miller and Vanessa Voskuil. Fiala holds legends Dr M. Balamuralikrishna, Dr N. a master’s degree in museum studies Ramani, AK Palanivel, and renown and cultural studies from the University vocalist KJ Yesudas. He is the founder/ of Minnesota. Her research presen­ president of Indo American Academy tation for the MeLa conference in 2013, of Classical Music. "The Postcolonial Museum," in Naples, is being expanded for publication in the upcoming MeLa collection The Ruined Archive (2015). She is associated with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as a tour guide, blogger, and SpeakEasy facilitator. She is the International Research Coordinator for Forecast Public Art, a Research Associate at Lutman & Associates, and an Administrative Assistant at the Caux Round Table.

Raman Kalyan is a leading flautist in the Carnatic style of music. He has released more than Rudresh Mahanthappa acclaimed 2008 CD Kinsmen (Pi). has been awarded a 2013 Doris Duke Mahanthappa is a Yamaha artist and Performing Artist Award; a uses Vandoren reeds exclusively. Guggenheim Fellowship; two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships; Tamara Nadel and commissions from the Rockefeller is a disciple of Ranee Ramaswamy and Foundation MAP Fund, Chamber Music Aparna Ramaswamy. She is a founding America and the American Composers member of Ragamala Dance and Forum. He has been named Alto has toured extensively with the com- Saxophonist of the Year in Downbeat’s pany throughout the United States and International Critics Polls, in Jazztimes’ in Russia, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Critics Polls, and by the Jazz India, and the United Kingdom. Nadel Journalists’ Association numerous was a 2006 McKnight Artist Fellow times. He has performed at Carnegie in Dance, and has received grants Hall; Royce Hall; the Chicago Jazz from the Minnesota State Arts Board Festival (2013); jazz festivals of and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Montreal, North Sea, and Newport; Council as well as a Jerome Founda- and prestigious jazz clubs, such as tion Travel Study Grant. She has been Blue Note and Birdland. His latest studying Carnatic music under Lalit quintet project, Bird Calls released its Subramanian since 2011. She serves debut in February 2015, and features as Development and Outreach Director pianist , bassist François for Ragamala Dance and as teacher Moutin, drummer Rudy Royston, for the school. She holds a degree in and trumpet prodigy Adam O’Farrill. religious studies and dance from Mahanthappa’s 2013 album Gamak Macalester College. Nadel also served features guitarist David “Fuze” on the City of Minneapolis Arts Com- Fiuczynski, bassist Francois Moutin, mission from 2008–2010, and is on the and drummer Dan Weiss. His debut Board of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. recording Samdhi (2010, ACT Music + Vision), was hailed by JazzTimes Aparna Ramaswamy for fusing jazz and Indian music with is Artistic Director, Choreographer, and modernist electronic music. Other Principal Dancer of Ragamala Dance projects include Apex, featuring Bunky with Ranee Ramaswamy, who founded Green; trios MSG and Mauger; the the company in 1992. They are both quintet Dual Identity, co-led with fellow protégés and senior disciples of altoist ; and Raw legendary dancer and choreographer Materials, his long-running duo project Alarmél Valli, known as one of with pianist Vijay Iyer. Mahanthappa India’s greatest living masters in the also continues to partner with Pakistani- South Indian classical dance form of American guitarist Rez Abbasi and Bharatanatyam. Aparna’s choreo­ innovative percussionist Dan Weiss in graphy and performance have been the Indo-Pak Coalition. He has awarded several honors, including performed as part of drummer Jack three McKnight Artist Fellowships for DeJohnette’s current group and Dance and Choreography, a Bush collaborated with Carnatic saxophonist Fellowship for Choreography, an Arts for his critically- and Religion grant funded by the Creative Music Summit: Nicole Mitchell May 2

Composing for her electroacoustic Black Earth Theater Ensemble, flutist Nicole Mitchell reframes movements for social change using science Dance fiction and film in her work Mandorla Awakening: Music Emerging Worlds. The ensemble performs to $22 tickets by a new film by visual artist Ulysses Jenkins, who using code DANCE at the discusses his collaboration with Nicole Mitchell Buy online at following the performance. Edlis mcachicago.org Neeson Photo: Bob Fila. Theater Photo: Alice Gebura

Rockefeller Foundation, choreographic as a student of Bharatanatyam legend and travel support from the Jerome Alarmél Valli, one of the greatest living Foundation and Minnesota State Arts masters of the form. She has toured Board, and the Lakshmi Vishwanathan extensively with Ragamala Dance, Endowment Prize from Sri Krishna performing throughout the United Gana Sabha (Chennai, India). Her solo States and in Russia, Taiwan, work, presented with live music, has Indonesia, Japan, the United Kingdom, toured the US and India with support and India. She is a 2012 McKnight Artist from the National Dance Project and Fellow for Dance, and the recipient USArtists International. Most recently of two Minnesota State Arts Board Artist projects toured to Narada Gana Sabha Initiative Grants for Dance and a Met- (Chennai) and the National Centre for ropolitan Regional Arts Council Next the Performing Arts (Mumbai). In 2010, Step Fund grant. Recently she began Aparna was named one of “25 to choreographing. She serves as Watch” by Dance Magazine. She is an Director of Publicity and Marketing for empaneled artist with the Indian Ragamala Dance. She holds a degree Council for Cultural Relations (of the in English literature from Carleton Government of India) and also serves College. Currently she also serves on on the Board of Trustees of Dance/USA. the Board of Arts Midwest.

Ashwini Ramaswamy Ranee Ramaswamy has studied Bharatanatyam with Raga- is founder of Ragamala Dance and with mala Dance's Artistic Directors Ranee Aparna Ramaswamy serves as Artistic Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy Director, Choreographer, and Principal —her mother and sister—since the Dancer. They are both protégés and age of five. She has been accepted senior disciples of legendary dancer Top right and and choreographer Alarmél Valli, bottom left: Photo: Darial Sneed known as one of India’s greatest living masters in the South Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam. Ranee is a 2014 recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and was appointed to the National Council on the Arts by President Barack Obama. Among her many awards are fourteen McKnight Artist Fellowships for Choreography and Interdisciplinary Art, a Bush Fellowship for Choreography, a 2011 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, and a 2012 United States Artists Fellowship.

Anjna Swaminathan dramaturg, extending her interests in is a disciple of the late violin maestro postcolonial thought, gender and queer Parur Sri MS Gopalakrishnan and theories, and Hindu Vedantic philo­ Mysore Sri HK Narasimhamurthy and sophy. Her hybrid practice includes has been trained in both Carnatic various collaborations, for which she classical and Western classical styles often develops scores and provides of violin. She also is a theater artist and musical accompaniment for dancers and dance companies, most notably Ragamala Dance (Minneapolis), with whom she has collaborated for the past four years, as well as Ragamala’s principal dancer and soloist, Aparna Ramaswamy. She also performs regularly with the ensemble RAJAS, curated by her sister and frequent col- laborator, Rajna Swaminathan. It brings together contemporary musicians to explore new directions of composi- tion and improvisation. Recently, she has been commissioned to create original music for playwright/performer Anu Yadav’s powerful one-woman play, Meena’s Dream, in Washington DC. In 2014 she was a participant at the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in Alberta, Canada. She holds a bachelor’s degree in theater from the University of Maryland, College Park. Rajna Swaminathan Los Angeles (California), University Is a disciple and protégé of mridangam Musical Society (Michigan), Just maestro Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman. Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland), Bali She has accompanied many renowned Arts Festival (Indonesia), Soorya musicians in the United States, Canada, Festival (Kerala, India), and National and India. She has also performed Centre for Performing Arts (Mumbai, extensively in the December Music India). Work for the company by Festival in Chennai. She frequently Ranee and Aparna is supported by the presents workshops on South Indian National Endowment for the Arts, rhythm, most notably at the Banff National Dance Project, MAP Fund, International Workshop in Jazz and The McKnight Foundation, New Music/ Creative Music, the Percussive Arts USA, USArtists International, and Society International Convention, and the Japan Foundation, and has been the KOSA International Percussion commissioned by the Walker Art Center Camp. Over the past three years, she (Minneapolis), Lincoln Center Out of has been collaborating with distin- Doors (New York), the Krannert Center guished artists in New York's jazz and (University of Illinois), the Clarice creative music scene, including Smith Performing Arts Center (University saxophonist Steve Coleman and pianist of Maryland), and the American Vijay Iyer. She is active as a composer- Composers Forum. Ranee and Aparna performer for dance and theater works. were jointly named “2011 Artist of the Most notably, she has toured widely Year” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. with Ragamala Dance, as well as with The ensemble’s upcoming work, Ragamala's Artistic Director Aparna Written in Water, has been selected for Ramaswamy in her solo work. Her a development residency at the Maggie most recent engagement as a com- Allesee National Center for Choreo­ poser is RAJAS, a nascent project that graphy (MANCC). For more information, brings together contemporary musi- including upcoming tour dates in cians to explore new directions for the United States and India, please visit composition and improvisation rooted www.ragamaladance.org. Exclusive in Indian musical concepts. She holds representation is by Laura Colby, degrees in anthropology and French Director, Elsie Management. from the University of Maryland, Photo: Darial Sneed College Park.

Ragamala Dance Under the direction of Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy, Ragamala creates work that conveys a sense of reverence, unfolding mystery, and universal celebration. Now in its twenty-second season, Ragamala has been featured at the American Dance Festival (North Carolina), Lincoln Center (New York), Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Music Center of Thank you Friends of the MCA Stage $500–999 Leslie Bodenstein and Lead support for the 2014–15 $10,000–24,999 Jason Pickleman season of MCA Stage is prov­ided Shawn M. Donnelley and Julie and Shane Campbell by Elizabeth A. Liebman. Christopher M. Kelly Terri and Stephen Geifman Ginger Farley and Bob Shapiro Mark Light Additional generous support Andreas Walburg-Wolfegg Anonymous is provided by David Herro and Jay Franke, Caryn and King $5,000–9,999 $499 and under Harris, and Lois and Steve Eisen Sara Albrecht Jane & Issi and the Eisen Family Foundation. Ellen Stone Belic David Brown Patricia Cox Coleen Kealey The MCA is a proud member of Pamela Crutchfield MCA North Shore Affiliates Museums in the Park and Karen and Jim Frank Jane Mordini receives major support from the The Irving Harris Foundation Matthew F. O’Connor Chicago Park District. Susie Karkomi and Jacquelyn Paine and Marvin Leavitt Robert Barr The Martha Struthers Farley Richard Poston and Donald C. Farley Jr. Kazu Yamamoto Family Foundation Anonymous Maya Polsky Carol Prins and John Hart

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