OUR

MISSION

Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT) is an ensemble of BIPOC women/femme professional dance artists who create original contemporary dance theater, upholding artistic excellence in social justice choreography. Inspired by the lives and dreams of BIPOC women/femmes around the globe, we work to dismantle hierarchies and build liberation. Through community-embedded creative processes, we strive to build a multi-dimensional movement of arts for social change.

As an ensemble of

Black and brown women and femmes,

we extend ourselves

beyond conventions of

dance-making

AND sharing, towards

dancing as

a methodology

of community-organizing

and movement-building.

Through our

creative and

performance practice,

we strive to dismantle

the hierarchies of

race,

gender,

caste,

class,

sexuality,

nationality,

ability,

and other identifiers

that have come to be

entrenched

in mainstream culture.

We are committed

to the broader

movement

of undoing

the violences of

racism,

casteism,

white supremacy,

toxic masculinity,

Empire,

colonization,

slavery,

genocide,

and other aggressions

through the

power and poetry

of our dancing.