New York, NY – 05/20/11 – Performing The Border – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Co Presented by IAAC, Performing the Border is a 90-minute evening of
dance that builds on the grammar of two Indian classical dance forms,
Bharata Natyam and Odissi, as well as a modern dance vocabulary. This
collaboration between two dance companies, Dakshina, a Bharata Natyam
and modern company, and Sakshi Productions, a neo-classical and
contemporary Odissi dance company, explores the borders that separate
dance histories and vocabularies, the classical from the modern, as
well as dancers from their audience. Each piece engages with the
notion of borders in a unique way and draws our attention to the
constructedness of these divisions.

Our hope is to, literally and metaphorically, “perform” the borders
that separate us.

Time: 8 p.m.
Tickets: $25 and $18 for students and seniors
At: Alvin Ailey Theatre

For more information:

www.dakshina.org

www.sakshiproductions.org