The New York Times: "All the Ways to Fall for Dance Again Onstage and Beyond"

This season’s highlights? A new festival at Little Island, a birthday celebration for Twyla Tharp — and the return of all the things you’ve missed.

Margaret Fuhrer
September 17, 2021
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RAGAMALA DANCE COMPANY Led by the mother-daughter collaborators Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy, Ragamala uses the South Indian classical dance style Bharatanatyam to tell stories that meld the sacred and traditional with the human and contemporary. The company’s new evening-length work, “Fires of Varanasi” (which premiered earlier in September at the Kennedy Center), features 11 dancers in an onstage ritual that examines immigrant experiences of life and death. (Sept. 22-26, the Joyce Theater)