Art Imitates Life
Most of us couldn’t even dance our way onto reality television, let alone pull off what Ragamala Dance is attempting in its new show, Yathra (Journey), which is the dramatization of an entire life cycle through the metaphor of a single day: the possibilities of dawn, the innocence of afternoon, the bittersweet understanding of dusk. It’s that kind of visual poetry that has earned Ragamala, the most consistently engaging troupe in the Twin Cities, an invitation to perform an abbreviated version of Yathra this month at the Kennedy Center. They’ll stage the full show from March 25 to 27 at the O’Shaughnessy Auditorium in St. Paul, accompanied by some of India’s finest musicians. Buy a ticket, and let them do the dancing.
