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Mondavi Center Presents

Nava Dance Theatre and Rupy C. Tut

Broken Seeds Still Grow

Friday, March 14 – Saturday, March 15, 2025

Vanderhoef Studio Theatre

Two dancers performing an Indian classical dance on stage. One dancer is on the floor, looking back at the other dancer standing above her.

Performances

Nava Dance Theater and Rupy C. Tut created Broken Seeds Still Grow, a multi-disciplinary dance and visual art production to explore the continuing impact of the 1947 British-India Partition, one of the most formative events in South Asia’s recent history.

Through Bharatanatyam, the Indian classical dance form that expresses South Indian religious and spiritual themes, and mixed visual media, they examine the hyphenated-American immigrant experience, linking it to the displacement of their ancestors during Partition. This intriguing dance project sources poetry, eyewitness accounts and current events to understand the current political climate while reflecting on what it means to belong in the United States.

Sponsored by

  • Season Sponsor The Nancy and Hank Fisher Family Fund

    The Nancy and Hank Fisher Family Fund

Artist Bios

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