Barkha Patel Dance Company
presents 'Ramti Aave'
Friday & Saturday, September 25 & 26, 2026, at 7:30pm.
$40 General Admission / Students $30
Barkha Patel is an Indian Classical Kathak dancer, choreographer, educator and Artistic Director of Barkha Dance Company. Ramti Aave is an interdisciplinary dance work that invokes Goddess Kali as an embodied archetype to excavate and reclaim female desire buried across generations. Drawing from traditional kathak and Gujarati folk dance vocabulary, contemporary choreography practice, oral memory work, and Audre Lorde’s Uses of the Erotic, the project explores how Gujarati Indian women, have betrayed their longings not out of weakness, but as necessary strategies for survival. This betrayal, inherited and internalized, becomes the terrain through which the body is both the site and source of resistance, memory, and reawakening. This work is a 2025 recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation Special Projects Grant.
