Ragamala Dance Company

Founded by Ranee Ramaswamy (Artistic Director) in 1992, Ragamala Dance Company celebrates the Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam. Together with daughters Aparna Ramaswamy (Executive Artistic Director) and Ashwini Ramaswamy (Choreographic Associate) they weave ancestral ritual, lineage, and contemporary resonance.

Working in an intergenerational partnership between mother and daughters, their creative vision merges the rich traditions and deep philosophical roots of their Indian heritage with their hybridic perspective as first generation Indian-Americans. As protégés and senior disciples of legendary dancer/choreographer Padma Bhushan Smt. Alarmél Valli, known as one of India’s greatest living masters, Ranee and Aparna’s training in the South Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam is the bedrock of their creative aesthetic.