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The Shape of Home
By Rituparna Rana
Directed by Rituparna Rana
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Show Description
An intimate solo performance blending Indian Classical and Folk dance and storytelling to explore migration, memory, and belonging. Can home be a place... or is it something we carry within us?
Genre and Content
Content Warnings
The creators say this show is appropriate for ages 2-6 and up
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Seat Reservations and Show Tickets
| Add to Schedule | Date | Time | Ticket Options | Quantity | Purchase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 08/08 | 2:30 PM | ||||
| Mon 08/10 | 5:30 PM | ||||
| Wed 08/12 | 7:00 PM | ||||
| Sat 08/15 | 10:00 PM | ||||
| Sun 08/16 | 8:30 PM |
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Cast and Crew
Pawan Sharma
Crew for stage set upPawan Sharma is going to help Rituparna Rana set the stage up and take it down, so he is part of stage management.
Lis Sundberg
CrewLis will help with set up and take down of the set and the props on the stage. she is part of the stage management.
More Information
What shape does home take when you have crossed countries, languages, climates, and versions of yourself?
The Shape of Home is an intimate 40-45 minute solo dance-theater work created and performed by Rituparna Rana, an Indian immigrant artist, Odissi dancer, storyteller, curator, and oral historian. The performance brings Indian classical and folk movement vocabularies into conversation with Rabindranath Tagore's songs, first-person narration, memory, nature, and the lived experience of migration.
Across the musical sections, Rana moves from a Vedic invocation of walking and speaking together into the inner joy of dance, the universal rhythm connecting many languages, and a tender encounter with the self who crossed the sea. Flowers, birds, wind, rain, monsoon, and spring become living archives. Bengali and Indian seasonal traditions meet the many ways immigrant communities in the United States recognize renewal—through color, faith, food, gathering, and hope.
The work also listens to the present. In a time when immigrant neighbors can feel watched, questioned, or treated as conditionally at home, Rana asks what happens inside a body that must repeatedly explain its belonging. The response is not a story of pain alone. The Shape of Home holds fear beside beauty, humor, skill, resilience, sensual memory, and joy.
Grounded in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam—the world is one family—and Sangacchadhvam Samvadadhvam—walk together, speak together—the performance imagines community as a practice of shared breath, shared rhythm, hospitality, introspection, and interdependence. It ends with Tagore's image of a door opening at dawn: Who will welcome? Who will make room? Who is ready to build a home larger than fear?
At once personal and universal, The Shape of Home offers an embodied meditation on the art we carry, the people who receive us, and the doors we choose to hold open.
