Thursday-Friday, May 30-31 at 7:30pm, and Saturday June 1 at 3pm and 7:30pm
Oakland Ballet Company presents Jangala, a dance theater work by Artistic Director, Graham Lustig, on Thursday-Friday, May 30-31 at 7:30pm, and Saturday June 1 at 3pm and 7:30pm in the Odell Johnson Center for the Performing Arts at Laney College, Oakland. Jangala is a family-friendly performance inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, that fuses contemporary ballet with movement vocabulary from the south Indian classical form, bharatanatyam. The dance follows the story of a lost boy, Mowgli, who is adopted by a pack of wolves and must use his wits to survive in the wild. Lustig has transplanted the action to a modern city, re-imagining the animal characters and their costumes for the urban jungle of contemporary India, complete with disco nightclubs, construction sites, and junkyards inhabited by feral dogs.
Jangala features a case of 11 female and five male dancers, and the recorded music score mixes upbeat bhangra and Bollywood music with classical ragas and folkloric music from across India. The company is joined by guest artist, bharatanatyam dancer Nadhi Thekkek, who dances the role of Mowgli's mother, Messua. Thekkek's Bay Area company, Nava Dance Theatre, will begin the performance with a dance work in the bharatanatyam tradition. The program also features the premiere of a new collaborative work by Lustig and Thekkek, which combines the male and female dancers of both companies in an exploration of the movement vocabularies of bharatanatyam and classical ballet.
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Oakland Ballet Company presents Jangala, a dance theater work by Artistic Director, Graham Lustig, on Thursday-Friday, May 30-31 at 7:30pm, and Saturday June 1 at 3pm and 7:30pm in the Odell Johnson Center for the Performing Arts at Laney College, Oakland. Jangala is a family-friendly performance inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, that fuses contemporary ballet with movement vocabulary from the south Indian classical form, bharatanatyam. The dance follows the story of a lost boy, Mowgli, who is adopted by a pack of wolves and must use his wits to survive in the wild. Lustig has transplanted the action to a modern city, re-imagining the animal characters and their costumes for the urban jungle of contemporary India, complete with disco nightclubs, construction sites, and junkyards inhabited by feral dogs.
Jangala features a case of 11 female and five male dancers, and the recorded music score mixes upbeat bhangra and Bollywood music with classical ragas and folkloric music from across India. The company is joined by guest artist, bharatanatyam dancer Nadhi Thekkek, who dances the role of Mowgli's mother, Messua. Thekkek's Bay Area company, Nava Dance Theatre, will begin the performance with a dance work in the bharatanatyam tradition. The program also features the premiere of a new collaborative work by Lustig and Thekkek, which combines the male and female dancers of both companies in an exploration of the movement vocabularies of bharatanatyam and classical ballet.
Thursday-Friday, May 30-31 at 7:30pm, and Saturday June 1 at 3pm and 7:30pm
Oakland Ballet Company presents Jangala, a dance theater work by Artistic Director, Graham Lustig, on Thursday-Friday, May 30-31 at 7:30pm, and Saturday June 1 at 3pm and 7:30pm in the Odell Johnson Center for the Performing Arts at Laney College, Oakland. Jangala is a family-friendly performance inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, that fuses contemporary ballet with movement vocabulary from the south Indian classical form, bharatanatyam. The dance follows the story of a lost boy, Mowgli, who is adopted by a pack of wolves and must use his wits to survive in the wild. Lustig has transplanted the action to a modern city, re-imagining the animal characters and their costumes for the urban jungle of contemporary India, complete with disco nightclubs, construction sites, and junkyards inhabited by feral dogs.
Jangala features a case of 11 female and five male dancers, and the recorded music score mixes upbeat bhangra and Bollywood music with classical ragas and folkloric music from across India. The company is joined by guest artist, bharatanatyam dancer Nadhi Thekkek, who dances the role of Mowgli's mother, Messua. Thekkek's Bay Area company, Nava Dance Theatre, will begin the performance with a dance work in the bharatanatyam tradition. The program also features the premiere of a new collaborative work by Lustig and Thekkek, which combines the male and female dancers of both companies in an exploration of the movement vocabularies of bharatanatyam and classical ballet.
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Oakland Ballet Company presents Jangala, a dance theater work by Artistic Director, Graham Lustig, on Thursday-Friday, May 30-31 at 7:30pm, and Saturday June 1 at 3pm and 7:30pm in the Odell Johnson Center for the Performing Arts at Laney College, Oakland. Jangala is a family-friendly performance inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, that fuses contemporary ballet with movement vocabulary from the south Indian classical form, bharatanatyam. The dance follows the story of a lost boy, Mowgli, who is adopted by a pack of wolves and must use his wits to survive in the wild. Lustig has transplanted the action to a modern city, re-imagining the animal characters and their costumes for the urban jungle of contemporary India, complete with disco nightclubs, construction sites, and junkyards inhabited by feral dogs.
Jangala features a case of 11 female and five male dancers, and the recorded music score mixes upbeat bhangra and Bollywood music with classical ragas and folkloric music from across India. The company is joined by guest artist, bharatanatyam dancer Nadhi Thekkek, who dances the role of Mowgli's mother, Messua. Thekkek's Bay Area company, Nava Dance Theatre, will begin the performance with a dance work in the bharatanatyam tradition. The program also features the premiere of a new collaborative work by Lustig and Thekkek, which combines the male and female dancers of both companies in an exploration of the movement vocabularies of bharatanatyam and classical ballet.
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