ud ance tudi presents:

August 22-24, 2025
Lakewood Cultural Center

A world premier, Indian dance performance.

Be the first to experience the commissioned music, original concept, new choreography, and fresh costumes from India.

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Tickets available in April.

We're actively seeking supporters for this important event.

Be a part of a world premier by supporting Mudra Dance Studio: An integral part of Colorado’s creative community for 30 years.

About dnnt

Adyananta (ah-dee-yahn-NAHN-tha), in Sanskrit, roughly means
“that with no beginning nor end.”

Adyananta contemplates endings.

Artists, perhaps more than anyone, deeply consider endings. The end of a dancer’s movement is every bit as important as its end. A brush stroke’s end has as much meaning as its start. The last of a note through a flute gives as much meaning as its beginning. Poems rhyme. Songs conclude. Rhythms resolve.

Endings are necessary.

They give meaning to the present and they establish beginnings. This is true of the shared rhythms in our world: cosmic, spiritual, and human journeys of grief, joy, and discovery.

Endings are transitions.

And so we ask the question: What if we are facing an end? How do we consider this possibility, not with apocalyptic fear but as deeply linked beings contemplating how we work together, honoring our humanity, and resolving our connected rhythms?

Adyananta will celebrate the Mudra Dance Studio style: Indian (South Asian) roots in the north-Indian classical tradition of Kathak, infused with Guru Nariani’s contemporary and inclusive influences: Bharatnatyum, Tango, West African, Samba, and Jazz. This amalgamation reflects a core value of inclusiveness that drives our dance style and studio’s culture.

As an audience member, you will ask questions about endings, however you may be present. You will feel better having experienced Adyananta. Like after a good meditation session, you’ll feel a sigh of contentment in that way when gaining new wisdom.