Event Title:

Organization:

  Performing Arts

  San Jose

Start Date:

  11/7/2026

End Date:

  11/7/2026

Start Time:

  4:00 PM

End Time:

  6:00 PM

Event Info: 

  Abhinaya Dance Company, an Indian classical dance company founded by Artistic Director Mythili Kumar announces Kolam: At the Threshold* on Saturday, November 7, 4 pm at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose.

Kolam: At the Threshold, choreographed by Abhinaya Principal Artist and Choreographer Rasika Kumar, is a new full-length 80-minute Bharatanatyam dance work that explores ritual, inheritance, and cultural memory through the South Indian practice of kolam-daily rice-flour drawings made at the threshold of the home. The piece integrates Bharatanatyam movement, Carnatic music, spoken text, and spatial design inspired by kolam's geometric structures.

Kolam centers the threshold as both a physical and symbolic space-between inside and outside, tradition and modernity, belonging and exclusion. The artistic vision is to transform the daily ritual of kolam into a contemporary performance structure, using its principles of symmetry, repetition, and impermanence as choreographic tools.

*Kolam: At the Threshold is inspired by the book Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India- An Exploration of the Kolam, by Vijaya Nagarajan, Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco.

https://tikkl.com/abhinaya/c/kolam

Location:

  Mexican Heritage Plaza

Room:

Address:

  1700 Alum Rock Avenue

Phone:

City:

  San Jose

State/Province:

  CA