Ananya Dance Theatre

On the verge of our 20th year, Ananya Dance Theatre imagines SWAPNŌ JHNĀP: DREAM JUMPING, an original, evening-length, devised dance theater work that reflects on years of shared dreams and audacious vision, accumulating energy and time, to jump us into a future filled with possibility. Dancing together – a methodology for manifesting joy and hope in the face of despair – becomes a practice of opening portals to the future, drawing on the feminist spiritual practice of quantum jumping. Our feet continuously align and realign in rhythmic footwork, intentionally drawing a desired future closer to the now.

Caretakers of the Land/Land Acknowledgement: We are located on and pay tribute to Mni Sota Makoce, the unceded homelands of the Dakota Oyate and the Ojibwe peoples. We stand in solidarity with Native and Black communities, whose land and labor are crucial in sustaining this land on which we dance.

Estimated Artist Fee: $20,000