Free Performance, Conversation With Visiting Dance Companies, Nov. 1

Press release from the City of Fairfax :

10/24/2022 4:04 PM

The Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of India and Sri Lanka’s Chitrasena Dance Company will perform excerpts from Āhuti at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center, located at 3740 Old Lee Highway.

Weaving together two dance vocabularies – Odissi from India and Kandyan from Sri Lanka – their performance of Āhuti features live flute, violin, harmonium, manjira, and drums.

This exclusive event includes the performers engaging the audience in conversation about their one-of-a-kind community where students and teachers live and train together. Performers will discuss their artistic inspirations drawn from Sanskrit poetry, as well as their efforts to preserve and maintain cultural tradition while growing it for larger audiences around the world.

This free event is presented by the City of Fairfax and the George Mason University’s Center for the Arts and is part of the Nrityagram’s schedule of activities as a Mason Artist-in-Residence. Nrityagram and Chitrasena are scheduled to perform together Nov. 5 at the Center for the Arts.

Due to limited seating capacity, this free event requires registration. Masks are requested, but not required, at a courtesy and in consideration of the artist’s health and safety while on tour.

This engagement of Nrityagram Dance Ensemble is made possible through the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

This press release was produced by the City of Fairfax. The views expressed here are the author’s own.