• CulturFest Home
• Scheduleof Events
• ThePerformers
• WorkshopsDemos
• Art Vendors
• Food Vendors
• PassportProgram
• OurSponsors
• Contact Us
• Video Clips
• CulturalDiversity Net
• German Brewfest
• Sporting Events

Ragamala

Ragamala Dance's work provides a bridge between cultures both ancient and modern, exploring a unique style of living poetry for the stage. Rooted in Bharatanatyam, a classical dance form from southern India, Ragamala blends dance, music, and poetry. Old forms are used in new ways to retain the past, enhance the present, and inspire the future. In India, dance has been used both as a vehicle of worship and as an expression of profound emotions, a human being's most subtle states of mind. The Indian dance system is the oldest and most comprehensive in the world. The world's earliest evidence of dance is a bronze figurine of a dancing girl discovered in the 4,000-year-old ruin of Mohenjodaro. Bharatanatyam is amongst the oldest of the classical dance forms of India , with a history that goes back more than two thousand years. Integrating elements of music, theater, poetry, sculpture, and literature, this multi-dimensional art has come down through the centuries, as part of a dynamic, vital, living tradition, that offers infinite scope for understanding and exploring the body, mind and spirit.

Dance Reveals Moving History - French Canadian

Dance Revels performs the folk dance and musical heritage of the French-related cultures in Minnesota. This rich cultural heritage comes from the Voyageurs during the fur trade, their Métis (French-Indian) descendants, French-Canadians from Quebec, and French immigrants. Our show, "A Voyageur's Tale," with two costumed dancers and a fiddler, includes lively jigs, reels, and stories from the days when Minnesota was New France, along with Métis dances that are still enjoyed today.