Full crowds, great reviews for Sacred Earth

The Minneapolis Star Tribune writes, “While Sacred Earth showcases the troupe’s total commitment to the Indian dance form Bharatanatyam, it’s also a fine example of what magic can happen when movement, visual artistry and music exist in close harmony with one another on stage.” Please click here to read the full review. Sacred Earth also received positive press from the City Pages, Twin Cities Daily Planet, and Mnartists.org.

Ragamala will be touring Sacred Earth to 23 cities this season, with Indiana State University being the first venue on October 18th. Please check the tour schedule to see if the company is coming to a stage near you! An excerpt of Sacred Earth is available for viewing on the main page of this site.

About Sacred Earth

The indigenous Warli people of western India revere the land and uphold a deep belief in the balance between themselves and the earth. Using their everyday landscape as inspiration, they craft dynamic wall paintings that depict a life lived in purposeful coexistence with nature, using art to find the spiritual in the everyday.

In south India, kolams are drawn each morning with rice flour as concious offerings to Mother Earth. These daily rituals create a sacred space and become a link between the intimate home and the vastness of the outside world. Gone in the space of a day, kolams are a graceful reminder of beauty’s impermanence.

Against a backdrop of large-scale Warli paintings by Warli folk artist Anil Chaitya Vangad and on a stage covered with kolams, each dancer gives physical forms to t hese visual art traditions and honors their place in the contemporary world. Sacred Earth celebrates body and nature, soul and Earth, and the divine balance found in the universe’s continuous pulse.