Ananya Dance Theatre

Join us as we JUMP towards a liberatory future!

2025 marks our TWENTIETH year
of making visceral and vibrant social justice choreography! 

With our next work, Swapnō Jhnāp: Dream Jumping, we will collapse the timeline between our current desperations and a future of justice and peace. Starting in April 2025, we will be offering a series community events
to generate the energy to jump us into a future
filled with possibility. 

Follow us on IG/FB for details and for updates on more 20th Season events!

 

Photos: GAddison Visuals
Music: Greg Schutte
Vocals: Aida Shahghasemi

Support Dance. Support Justice. Support Our Community.

At Ananya Dance Theatre, we believe that art is a bridge to social change, and our dancers are at the heart of this transformation. Every year, it takes $650,000 to bring you powerful performances, provide thriving wages for artists and to engage in deep social justice work—work that fosters a thriving, equitable community for everyone.

This year, we invite you to stand in solidarity with our dancers, who are BIPOC, female, and non-binary artists who deserve fair pay, health care, and benefits. When you give to Ananya Dance Theatre, you’re not just supporting art—you’re supporting artists and their vision for a more just and beautiful world.

Whether you choose to give $5 or $500 your gift is your voice 
in support of fair pay for artists and a more just future. 
Thank you for your gift! 

Ananya Dance Theatre is an ensemble company of BIPOC women and femme professional dance artists. 

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

For 20 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.

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 strive to end the violence of racism, casteism, white supremacy, toxic masculinity, Empire, colonization, slavery, genocide, and other aggressions.

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 Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice located on University Avenue (Lexington/Snelling) in St. Paul. 

An evening image of our home on University Avenue.