Fri, March 24, 8 pm & Sat, March 25, 2 and 8 pm
Leela Dance, a dance collective bringing together today's leading Kathak artists presents the world premiere of SPEAK: A Kathak and Tap Collaboration, March 24-25, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Indian Kathak and American tap dance - continents and ages apart - share parallel stories of struggle and perseverance. Kathak dancers Rachna Nivas and Rina Mehta (disciples of the late legendary master Pandit Chitresh Das), along with Tap dancers Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (Tony Award-winning Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk) and Michelle Dorrance (Dorrance Dance, New York), come together in this sensational collaboration that is rhythm, poetry, storytelling, music, and dance.
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Leela Dance, a dance collective bringing together today's leading Kathak artists presents the world premiere of SPEAK: A Kathak and Tap Collaboration, March 24-25, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Indian Kathak and American tap dance - continents and ages apart - share parallel stories of struggle and perseverance. Kathak dancers Rachna Nivas and Rina Mehta (disciples of the late legendary master Pandit Chitresh Das), along with Tap dancers Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (Tony Award-winning Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk) and Michelle Dorrance (Dorrance Dance, New York), come together in this sensational collaboration that is rhythm, poetry, storytelling, music, and dance.
Fri, March 24, 8 pm & Sat, March 25, 2 and 8 pm
Leela Dance, a dance collective bringing together today's leading Kathak artists presents the world premiere of SPEAK: A Kathak and Tap Collaboration, March 24-25, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Indian Kathak and American tap dance - continents and ages apart - share parallel stories of struggle and perseverance. Kathak dancers Rachna Nivas and Rina Mehta (disciples of the late legendary master Pandit Chitresh Das), along with Tap dancers Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (Tony Award-winning Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk) and Michelle Dorrance (Dorrance Dance, New York), come together in this sensational collaboration that is rhythm, poetry, storytelling, music, and dance.
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Leela Dance, a dance collective bringing together today's leading Kathak artists presents the world premiere of SPEAK: A Kathak and Tap Collaboration, March 24-25, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Indian Kathak and American tap dance - continents and ages apart - share parallel stories of struggle and perseverance. Kathak dancers Rachna Nivas and Rina Mehta (disciples of the late legendary master Pandit Chitresh Das), along with Tap dancers Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (Tony Award-winning Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk) and Michelle Dorrance (Dorrance Dance, New York), come together in this sensational collaboration that is rhythm, poetry, storytelling, music, and dance.
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