https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/home daily 1.0 2021-01-09 https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/about daily 0.75 2020-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1592179779006-P0HHEW9O03C4LD7ZJAWQ/Ranee+3424+Ed+Bock.jpg About Photo by Ed Bock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1605904967210-V7VLLXCVOQDVII9FUILM/IMG_3376+for+story.JPG About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1604368427883-05W33P89RYEVPSNATSDK/Screen+Shot+2020-11-02+at+7.41.28+PM.png About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1605905027631-UQC5RPW491CSPB704SHF/20191018_CMMSP_019+by+rebecca+studios.jpg About Photo by Rebecca Slater, By Rebecca Studios https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1602356258554-R4NIX11JOIEE46YPDBSF/training+ranee+2+parents.JPG About My parents sit in on a rehearsal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1605905506979-EA89KLQLENUR4CUA6WUH/IMG_3375+for+story.JPG About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1606271616650-TCH20Z7GIIK291PID01T/download.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1605905211696-XTZU5XEL4Q5894CC8KSF/IMG_0956+kids+for+story.JPG About My daughters, Aparna and Ashwini, when they were younger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1605905291204-0UKF8S58SC2WPH46RKAK/IMG_9547+tedx+for+story.jpg About Ashwini, Aparna, and myself at TEDxMinneapolis in 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1605905526259-JGVL3AZGTS6FR09KQVZQ/IMG_3378+for+story.JPG About https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-11-25 https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/performances-collaboration daily 0.75 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/d9fffc50-1134-41b6-a594-ac415ef1f154/RaneeStarTrib.jpg Performances & Collaboration - Make it stand out Ranee Ramaswamy practices for her upcoming performance of “Fires of Varanasi” at the Center for Performing Arts in Minneapolis, Minn on Wednesday, Feb 16, 2022. Jerry Holt, Star Tribune https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1607975133873-2TWK9DA3WDDRGZF01IX0/IMG_1754.JPG Performances & Collaboration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1602264062109-GD2XXLVDITWBKAE4HVIL/s190919Ragamala3_1071s1+copy.jpg Performances & Collaboration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1602263617839-UL9LQNQ58MS8A3XI7ZMN/s190919Ragamala1_0382s1+copy.jpg Performances & Collaboration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1602263464133-CCTNZ70OXT4EX8HDHQW4/s190919Ragamala1_0387s1+copy.jpg Performances & Collaboration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1602263684419-IW0QXL6DBQ95ATHV4BAZ/Ragamala_026GrantHalverson.jpg Performances & Collaboration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1606275634093-YQAWW1HVF3FZ0KJL1Q60/sethu.jpg Performances & Collaboration Sethu Photo by David McKay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1607977995842-70MVPTWBLU8005V2H1Y5/Where+the+Hands+Go+%28composite%29+photo+by+Marc+Norberg.jpg Performances & Collaboration Where the Hands Go (composite) photo by Marc Norberg https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/classes daily 0.75 2020-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1596922049184-ANJ4I638500K9DTOM4A3/Ranee+3424+Ed+Bock.jpg Classes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1596931748159-AAA6ET97IRCMWJVYZZWI/IMG_1329.JPG Classes - Advanced abhinaya classes with Ranee Ramaswamy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1606004159978-UV8JDJIFJXBI264WUE0J/valli.jpg Classes https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2020-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847809486-VU4HSDGA1YGVW2UCUG6S/image-asset.jpeg Press (Old) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847809773-4AVENDOYLYROKJPJY15R/image-asset.jpeg Press (Old) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847809223-3CH44NO1Z15P57C565GD/image-asset.jpeg Press (Old) https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/projects daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1602264062109-GD2XXLVDITWBKAE4HVIL/s190919Ragamala3_1071s1+copy.jpg Projects - Founder: Ragamala Dance Company Founder and Artistic Director since 1992 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/cd71d763-3ccc-4be7-b575-0f31b65837e7/BB17E9A7-9BBE-47F1-A693-7798F724F51F.jpeg Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/a66fa901-53e0-4804-ae1e-bf481040a154/Screen+Shot+2023-05-30+at+3.54.28+PM.jpg Projects - Ranee Ramaswamy Solo: Abhinaya March 31st, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/dcd9a24a-5277-450e-8b66-d5cd74a04957/Range+Funding+Credit-2.jpg Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/76bd9731-eaf5-420a-a175-eaeba5920280/IMG_8669.JPG Projects - Art + Medicine: Dance into your 70s like Ranee Ramaswamy Ranee Ramaswamy still dances bharatanatyam in her 70’s, but makes conscience decisions about what she performs in order to none her age and the realities of her changing mobility. Art + Medicine: Healthy Aging, a TPT co-production with the Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/86eacf1e-65bc-4c98-ae69-80b2049aeac6/NEW+Ranee+credit.jpg Projects - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1596838597304-DW5XS0MJIIF7TS7451YX/Lineage+promo+1-page-001.jpg Projects - Lineage Watch Trailer Here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1605572642278-QTYVFEHX26QG0RS983ST/IMG_0982.JPG Projects - Virtual Education Series: Basics of Bharatanatyam Created during the Spring of 2020, this series invites you to learn Bharatanatyam Basics from the legendary Ranee Ramaswamy right from home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1604368856749-TWA4U7O5XO6FU2NH5RKE/6+yards.JPG Projects - 6 Yards of Memory Funded by the Minnesota State Arts Board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1606276656324-HTOUZB1MBCAG9XUP89GR/kolam.JPG Projects - Kolam Every morning before sunrise women create designs with rice flour, and their fingers. This art is called kolam which means beautiful lines. I learned this art as a young child from my mother as that was how it was passed on. These white lace like designs are made in front of the main entrance of our homes directly on the earth after washing the area with water. Kolams honor the earth and invokes the goddess of prosperity. It blesses those who leave and welcomes those who come. It is slowly erased as the day goes by showing us at all times that things of beauty die, and do not last. It is a gesture of giving back to the earth for what we have received as Birds and insects eat them all day. The size, and intricacy of the design acts as a public announcement to the outside of what is happening inside the home. Unless there is a death in the family a design is done every single day. This ritual completely demands concentrated time when body and mind are totally involved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1604371574141-47YOI6D5V6FYSDH5NKJ2/cambride+3.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1604371305282-J3CYFI7SAN18G0EIVH4M/cambridge+1.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1604371516982-F3OPZPQZ0Q7O7Y1B2VQ8/cambridge+5.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1604371440545-H3WK5YU8TBFHPVLJBW9T/cambridge+4.JPG Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1604371416016-BPDKKBTZMY9ADWARQE9B/cambridge+2.JPG Projects Learn More https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1606003511828-ICBXZNS6P2UMPOOKAB92/IMG_7736+keshav.jpg Projects Funded by the Minnesota State Arts Board https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1606003142613-KWIV4PLDHCFFZL9R1S1K/730488612f97f49519cf7373611d126c.jpeg Projects - Dramaturg, Fires of Varanasi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1606005144108-EF2ZLXHG7JEYFVHMVZEZ/Haven%27t+I+Hidden+Your+Name+1.jpg Projects - Haven’t I Hidden Your Name? Haven’t I Hidden Your Name? is rooted in the writings of the Sephardic Jewish poets of southern Spain’s Golden Age—a period of Islamic rule known for innovations in art and thought that emerged from the intermingling of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions. In this solo work created for her long-time student and disciple Tamara Nadel, choreographer Ranee Ramaswamy uses the living language of Bharatanatyam to explore themes of love, longing, and devotion through the lens of Tamara’s Jewish background. An original musical score by Cantor Basya Schechter, Lalit Subramanian, Vinod Krishnan, and Cantor Audrey Abrams—specially commissioned for this work—weaves together Jewish and South Indian musical genres and instrumentation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1606020016770-2Y37652YA04LIUYG2XB3/IR_Gopis_Photo+by+Dan+Norman+-+1.JPG Projects - Children’s Theatre Company Presents THE IRON RING (2010) Joined by the beautiful artistry of Ragamala Dance and the work of acclaimed Twin Cities' choreographer Ranee Ramaswamy, The Iron Ring is an epic tale infused with humor and the fascinating movements of Bharatanatyam dance, a 2,000 year-old dance form originating in India. "Ranee introduced me to The Iron Ring and this has been an amazing partnership. She brings a deep love of storytelling, and the Ragamala dancers are so exquisitely talented," says Peter C. Brosius, artistic director for CTC and director of The Iron Ring. "I am dazzled by the dance form: its fierceness, delicacy and precision." https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/awards daily 0.75 2021-12-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1604373076497-XAJEMMA6ITBJUAU6OW31/Ramaswamy%2BPhoto%2Bed+bock.jpg Awards - Bogliasco Foundation Spring 2020 Fellowship Recipient: Fires of Varanasi For millennia, Varanasi—the earth’s oldest continuously inhabited city—has symbolized the crossing place between this world and the ‘far shore.’ As first-generation Indian-American choreographers, Ranee, Aparna, and Ashwini (mother and daughters) explore the birth-death-rebirth continuum in Hindu thought to examine immigrant experiences of life and death in the diaspora and the tenacity of people and cultures across time. Photo by Ed Bock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1604373525180-I0XZKLW9UFE31OXNXNQV/IMG-20191027-WA0019.jpg Awards - Guggenheim Foundation Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1596921857455-LSPW6D7EXVBTXUL7EGDU/Ranee+Ramaswamy+by+Ed+Bock.jpg Awards - McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist Award, 2011 14 Fellowships for Choreography, Awarded 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2012, 2020 2 Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Artists, Awarded 1997-2002 Photo by Ed Bock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1596922210585-MQQLP1ZOICA8Y34CKZ3K/Bellagio.JPG Awards - Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center (Italy) Research Fellow, awarded 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1602355782778-SWHBQDZ70KS2OJDM4AAS/Obama.jpg Awards - Member, National Council on the Arts Appointed by President Barack Obama 2012-Present https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1606020617223-X02KBEZCCXKYBMFOFWRG/Ranee+Headshot Awards - Doris Duke Artist Award Received 2014 Photo by Ed Bock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1606020902795-DPFKQP63LM6XNLGQF24I/Ranee%2BRamaswamy%2Bby%2BEd%2BBock%2Bpurple.jpg Awards - United States Artists Received 2012 Photo by Ed Bock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/fdbe7190-ed6c-44c3-a85a-2cdac795d0ae/s210805Ragamala1_4149s2.jpg Awards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/641d920b-7dfc-4430-b9d7-c1c2f88e3a04/msab_logo_color.jpeg Awards - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/6e124e00-4855-468e-a83f-07c581109b8b/legacy_logo_rgb.jpeg Awards - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/conversations daily 0.75 2023-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/02f01fc9-d7f3-4e53-ae5a-dd3d3e1764f3/79F40774-.JPG Conversations - Bush Fellows Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy have made the Minnesota-based Ragamala Dance Company into an international bridge builder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1de3c9a3-d859-4984-ae3b-d71a6ceaf3d2/d9b75864-9cfc-48e5-9de1-4d8a49be69a3.jpg Conversations - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/50f9cbd1-54db-4f49-9e50-dd9bbf40537c/movers+and+shapers.png Conversations - Movers and Shapers: A Dance Podcast Over the last four decades, Ranee and Aparna have forged a path for culturally rooted performing arts organizations and made Ragamala a standard-bearer within the American dance landscape. Hosted by Erin Carlisle Norton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/3fa95d98-86ab-4c90-80eb-931c344fc03a/newconversation.png Conversations - Conversations on Dance Podcast Co-artistic director, Ranee Ramaswamy, and her two daughters: co-artistic director Aparna Ramaswamy and Choreographic Associate Ashwini Ramaswamy, talk about their origins in dance, the style of Bharatanatyam, the founding of their company, their choreography, and what they have coming up in the next few months. Hosted by Rebecca King Ferraro and Michael Sean Breeden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1596932099557-QVA434K3KBM0WI0QX24Z/Ragalmala_MasterClass_2018nEemaan11_1+Jacob%27s+Pillow.JPG Conversations - MPR News: Dance Performances that bridge communities MPR News host Angela Davis talks with two Twin Cities dance artists who use the language of dance to communicate deep emotions and build bridges between people and communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1604370818433-L4JQLRLQIKQ7DJOXDGCF/WiW+DC114.jpg Conversations - Seeing Performance: Dance and Theater in the Twin Cities A class at Macalaster College, taught by Ranee Ramaswamy with Bhutto artist Eiko Otake, about the influence of transnational artists and careers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1602262081886-AVQZI5T1Z1TQZ9476J61/ranee%2Bpaikka.jpg Conversations - Creative Mornings PAIKKA, St. Paul MN Ranee, Aparna, & Ashwini Ramaswamy of Ragamala Dance Company talk about lineage, tradition, dual cultures, mentorship, and always continuing to grow and learn. Photo by Rebecca Studios https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/six-yards daily 0.75 2020-10-10 https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/navaratri daily 0.75 2020-10-10 https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/fires-of-varanasi-story-board daily 0.75 2020-11-20 https://www.raneeramaswamy.com/press daily 0.75 2023-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/1605572642278-QTYVFEHX26QG0RS983ST/IMG_0982.JPG Press - smART Magazine: How a mother-daughter duo is bringing classical South Indian Dance to the global stage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/dcfba699-1ce0-4ef7-a4b9-d359f5afee67/Untitled+design-2.jpg Press - Hinduism Today: Meet the Next Gen of Dancers Ranee Ramaswamy learned Bharatanatyam at an early age, but only found her destiny in it after migrating to the US and watching Alarmél Valli perform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/e40a5ac2-4f3d-4bff-82ec-417379e8ce73/62c85a11c6299.image.jpeg Press - Dance Magazine Ranee Ramaswamy shares her Pineapple Yogurt Curry recipe, and its tradition with writer Chava Pearl Lansky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/02f01fc9-d7f3-4e53-ae5a-dd3d3e1764f3/79F40774-.JPG Press - Bush Foundation: Always Seeking Bush Fellows Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy have made the Minnesota-based Ragamala Dance Company into an international bridge builder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/571c125e-8b76-4be1-97de-4587d80c9495/IMG_8571.JPG Press - The New York Times: Finding the Heat in ‘Sacred Earth’ At Ragamala Dance Company’s nature-themed performance at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, the strongest connection was between music and dance, our critic writes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/3567a9fd-8e80-465b-9129-3553f281e916/The-Ramaswamys.jpg Press - Mpls/St. Paul Magazine: What Ragamala Dance Company's New Show Says About Life and Death Ranee Ramaswamy, along with her daughters, Aparna and Ashwini, are using Bharatanatyam, an ancient Hindu dance form, to help us understand modern life... and death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee6b51b7ef3874c512acf4e/173b3ebb-f0c0-4d6a-84e9-c68768ccc13e/08_14RAGAMALA022322.jpg Press - Star Tribune: How Minnesota's mother-daughter dance company Ragamala earned a spot on the national map The Ramaswamys bring "Fires of Varanasi" to Northrop after premiering the show last year at the Kennedy Center. In photo, Ranee Ramaswamy practices for their upcoming performance of “Fires of Varanasi” at the Center for Performing Arts in Minneapolis, Minn., on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Jerry Holt, Star Tribune