About the Show
5 journeys, 5 portals, 5 medicines: Moving through horror towards dreams that connect us with ourselves / we travel through portals / navigating oceans of grief / shared rhythms of the dance club / the hatching of mythical creatures / war-torn landscapes. Emboldened by the feminist spiritual practice of quantum jumping / we birth the miracle of a deeply connected universe.
Ananya Dance Theatre, an ensemble of transnational feminist professional dance artists, marks the climax of its 20th season of disruptive, powerful, and urgent Contemporary Dance with the world premiere of SWAPNŌ JHNĀP: Dream Jumping. [SHAWP-no ZHOMP]. Conceived and choreographed by Ananya Chatterjea.
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. The dancers travel through portals that cross time cycles and spacescapes, integrating vital medicine, and patchwork a methodology of d
