Ananya Dance Theatre

"A gemstone in the fire"
Pioneer Press, 2005

"The most exciting work coming to stages... this season is undeniably grounded in our shared present."
Dance Magazine, 2026

Since 2005, Ananya Dance Theatre has been hailed in our community for our annual performances: 

And Ananya Dance Theatre is so much more than our annual premiere of original dance theatre. 

Our ensemble of artists are creating and building and imagining and teaching and convening and gathering, all year round. It takes $675,000 for Ananya Dance Theatre to offer our ongoing opportunities for embodied connection: performance, events, and classes. 

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Ananya Dance Theatre is an ensemble of transnational feminist professional dance artists. 

We create original contemporary dance theater at the intersection of artistic excellence and social justice. 

For 21 years we have worked to dismantle hierarchies and build liberation, inspired by the lives and dreams of BIPOC women and femmes around the globe. 

Read more about Ananya Dance Theatre's history and aesthetic.

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Ananya Dance Theatre Values

• Reach Out in Solidarity with Global Liberation Struggles
• Reach In for Intersectional Justice
• Practice with Rigor & Excellence
• Center Interconnected Relationship
• Build Feminist Ensemble 
• Uplift Difference and Aesthetic/Cultural Specificity

We are located on and pay tribute to Mni Sota Makoce, 
the unceded homelands of the Dakote Oyate and the Objibwe peoples. 
We stand in solidarity with Native and Black communities, 
whose land and labor are crucial in sustaining this land on which we dance.

Since June 2018, our convening, teaching, and rehearsal home has been the Shawngrām Institute for Performance & Social Justice located on University Avenue (Lexington/Snelling) in St. Paul. 

An evening image of our home on University Avenue.