Children of Dharma Family Series

Performance Run Time: 60 minutes, no intermission. 
Accessibility Services: This performance will have Audio Description.
Audience members — both children and anyone who is a child at heart — are invited.

Ragamala Dance Company returns to the Harris Theater Family Series with an abbreviated performance of Children of Dharma — including additional narration specially created for attendees of all ages. Children of Dharma explores life— forever sprouting, transforming, dissolving, and renewing— through three characters from the Hindu epic The Mahabharata. These myths reveal the power of ancient cultures to reaffirm humanity’s relationship with nature and the sacred, and provoke a visceral response to crises over the ages, from environmental devastation and oppression to unjust wars.

Centering ancestral wisdom and creativity to contextualize the immigrant experience, Ragamala Dance Company upholds dance as a spiritual practice that can inspire, heal, and transform communities—an important message for all ages.

Through lush visual imagery, an original recorded score, and poetic movement that integrates intimate solos with powerful ensemble choreography for the company’s seven dancers, Children of Dharma channels South Indian culture to unearth some of the most enduring questions of conscience facing humanity.

Children of Dharma features scenic and light design by the celebrated visual artist Willy Cessa, renowned for his work with Compagnie C de la B).