FEATURED GUEST ARTIST: RAGAMALA DANCE COMPANY

Now in its 32nd season under the leadership of Artistic Directors Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy and Choreographic Associate Ashwini Ramaswamy (mother and daughters), Ragamala Dance Company has been hailed by The New York Times as “soulful, imaginative, and rhythmically contagious.”

Over the last four decades, Ranee and Aparna’s practice in the South Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam has shifted the trajectory of culturally rooted performing arts in the United States to create an exemplary company within the American dance landscape. Through both intimate solos and large-scale theatrical works for the stage, The Ramaswamys empower the South Asian American experience. By engaging the dynamic tension between ancestral wisdom and creative freedom, they reveal the kindred relationship between ancient and contemporary that is urgently needed in today’s world. Ragamala Dance Company is a pioneering, intergenerational, family-run organization committed to the idea that while history is time bound, the stories we share are timeless. Ragamala’s work in the performing arts field is expansive. The company engages in a collaborative practice with myriad artists and aesthetics and is rooted in the idea of Bharatanatyam as a dynamic living tradition. Learn more at ragamaladance.org

Featured company members Jothika Gorur and Sri Guntipally will be representing Ragamala at the 4th Annual Rowan Dance Festival, preceding a full company residency in January 2026.