DEVISED AND CREATED BY FEDERICA CELLINI
Home.
When do you leave home?
Have you ever been forced to leave home?
What reminds you of home?
As war, violence, and the climate crisis continue to force people around the world to migrate and leave their homes behind, Dhana and the Rosebuds explores these themes through a poetic lens. Dance, movement, and sound reveal the intimate history of Dhana - a young Syrian woman, now a career scientist living in New York - who forgot about her past. When she thinks she sees her estranged grandmother on television among the refugees crossing the border in the Balkans, she decides to go and find her.
Join Ally this November for a spiritual journey into place and time as Dhana makes her way to the heart of the migration emergency - across oceans, through refugee camps, bus and train stations - to find her grandmother, her roots, and ultimately herself.
Dhana and the Rosebuds is based on a screenplay written by Federica Cellini and Giulia Corda
Content warning: Recommended for all ages though viewer discretion is advised as this production may trigger personal/cultural/racial traumas of escaping war and violence.
Tickets
General Admission: $25
Students/Seniors/Veterans/Teachers $17
About Ally Theatre Company
Ally Theatre Company produces theatre designed to engage audiences through acknowledging and confronting systemic oppression in America.
We aim to join the vital conversations -- sparked by generations of thinkers, writers, performers, and activists who paved the way before us -- conversations that continue each and every day -- by:
-Placing underrepresented populations at the front and center of our narratives and our organization;
-Forming alliances with individuals and organizations who share a similar mission;
-Producing new theatrical works making their world, national, or local premieres; and
-Tackling existing theatrical works that forward the conversation.
In doing so, we hope to play a small part in creating the space and opportunity needed to form new traditions and conversations, while steadily inching toward the eradication of systemic violence, prejudice, and racism in our society.
