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Image Description: This promotional image for “Ananya Dance Theatre” and “Dance Place’s 45th Season” features a dynamic collage of nine dancers in various expressive poses, seemingly mid-movement. They wear colorful, flowing costumes and have diverse appearances. A large, golden “45” with sparkling accents is overlaid on the right side. The top text reads “Ananya Dance Theatre” in gold. Vertical white text “HOME IS COMING” borders both sides, and “CELEBRATE DANCE PLACE’S 45TH SEASON” is at the bottom in white.

Photo Credit/Original Graphic: Galen Higgins

Ananya Dance Theatre

December 5 & 6 at 7pm

SWAPNŌ JHNĀP: DREAM JUMPING faces the ongoing chaos and escalating destruction of our Common Life by bringing connectivity and liberation out of the dream world and into reality. As the dancers travel through portals that cross time cycles and spacescapes, they integrate vital medicine and patchwork a methodology of dreaming that literally brings the desired world closer. We discover wisdom and connectivities inside the depths of oceanic grief, in the shared rhythms of a dance club, in the hatching of mythical creatures, in the rubble of war-torn landscapes, and inside quantum entanglements of movement and breath. Dancing together opens portals to the future, drawing on the feminist spiritual practice of quantum jumping. 5 journeys, 5 portals, and 5 medicines birth the miracle of a deeply connected universe. Conceived and choreographed by Ananya Chatterjea, featuring the work of composer Greg Schutte, stage director k.t. shorb, scenic designer Mina Kinukawa, costume designer Annie Cady, and lighting designer Kevin Jones. Ananya Dance Theatre ensemble: Mariadela Belle Alvarez, Noelle Awadallah, Lizzette Chapa, Ananya Chatterjea, Kealoha Ferreira, Davente Gilreath, Juliet Irving, Zhané Jackson, Vy Nguyen.

Thank you to our 2025-2026 Season Supporters!