Prakritir Pratisodh: Tour Stop in Appleton, WI
We’re excited to announce a couple of upcoming tour dates in Wisconsin next month!
First, we’ll be performing the world premiere of the full, evening-length version of Prakritir Pratisodh – Nature’s Revenge! in Appleton on April 12. If you’re in the area, we’d love to have you at our 7:30 pm performance at Fox Cities Performing Arts Center.
Nature’s Revenge portrays through Kathak dance (the classical dance tradition of North India) a series vignettes depicting what happens when human actions drive the five basic elements (“Panchabhuta”) that translates to the five elements which in Indian philosophy and Ayurveda, are considered the fundamental building blocks of the universe and the human body: earth, water, fire, air, and space – out of sync, and how we can work together to bring them back into harmony. Featuring new and expanded choreography by KDT Artistic Director Rita Mustaphi and music composed by Pandit Birju Maharaj, Rajeev Chakraborty and Jayanta Banerjee, the show will be in keeping with KDT’s mission to propel the Kathak tradition into genre-bending spaces.
The work-in-progress version was named by the Minnesota Star Tribune as one of the 10 most memorable dance performances of 2023: https://www.startribune.com/10-most-memorable-dance-events-of-2023/600331050
Tickets are available here.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and thanks to a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. It is also made possible by operating support from Propel Nonprofits, the McKnight Foundation, the RBC Foundation, the Archie and Bertha Walker Foundation, the Dr. Dash Foundation and the generosity of KDT’s private donors.