Ragas Live Festival
Ragas Live Festival is "24 hours of uninterrupted, absolutely incredible music performances" (The New York Times). SACSA has been a proud partner of Ragas Live Festival since 2020.
The event’s inspiration is is raga, the classical music of South Asia, a musical system in which specific musical modes are designed to harmonize with specific times of day, such as sunrise, sunset, or the darkest hours of the night. For 24 continuous hours, master raga musicians are presented alongside legends in ambient music, minimalism, jazz, and global traditions. This October, you can experience this transcendent, spiritual, music in person at Pioneer Works, in Red Hook, Brooklyn or tune in at WKCR-FM.
Chitresh Das Institute
The Chitresh Das Institute seeks to ignite the world's passion about kathak dance and Indian classical arts, spark the imagination with art rooted in tradition and responding to the now, and we are guided by commitment to community, legacy, and seva (service).
The acclaimed work in kathak by Charlotte Moraga with an original score by Utsav Lal, featuring Chitresh Das Dance, Utsav Lal on Piano, Subhan Khan on tabla, multimedia design by Alka Raghuram. Dancers: Mayuka Sarukka, Vanita Mundhra, Kritika Sharma, Shruti Pai.