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ANGAHARA DANCE ENSEMBLE (Swetha & Ramaa Bharadvaj) In “JWALA – Flame”
L. A. Holiday Celebration 2007 National telecast on PBS
December 2007 - dates vary For local listing in your City/State click: http://lacountyarts.org/hc2007/national/airdates.html
For more information about the piece and its theme please visit: http://lacountyarts.org/hc2007/national/nsartist.html
The L.A. County Holiday Celebration is a holiday tradition in Los Angeles and is the largest multicultural holiday show in the country. This national telecast which features the best of the best reflects the varied cultural mosaic of Los Angeles rarely experienced on national television. |
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National PBS telecast of "JWALA-Flame"
This telecast is a one-hour highlight version of the live six-hour Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration that took place in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center on Christmas Eve 2006 for a 9000+ audience.
Ramaa & Swetha are among 16 performing companies that have been selected for this national telecast.
Their choreography of “JWALA – Flame” brings together two generations and two cultural traditions. It juxtaposes the East Indian classical dance style of Bharata Natyam and traditional music with jazz-influenced freestyle movements and rhythms to tell the story of the pair’s heritage and immigrant experience to the United States.
It portrays the transformational stages through which immigrants acculturate themselves to their new environment - the adventure, the adjustment, and finally finding the equilibrium not just through sharing of their own culture but learning from the new as well.
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