SMC: Bharatnatyam dancer Ashwini Ramaswamy and her collaborators including Berit Ahlgren (Gaga, a contemporary Israeli dance form) and Alanna Morris (Modern & African Diasporic dance) taught master classes to Santa Monica College Dance students on April 3-5, 2023 at the SMC Core Performance Center ahead of the BroadStage weekend performance of Ashwini Ramaswamy’sLet the Crows Comeon April 7 & 8, 2023. As part of a two week residency, Ramaswamy worked with SMC’s Global Motion World Dance Company to create a dance piece for their Spring 2023 concert and taught a workshop in the traditional Southeast Asian dance form, Bharatanatyam.Ramaswamy and her collaborators taught these SMC dance workshops in partnership with BroadStage.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 8, 2023. Read the original PDF.