Ragamala Dance Company Blends Generations and Cultures
For the Ramaswamy family, dance — specifically Bharatanatyam, a South Indian classical dance form — is both lifeblood and business. Now in its 26th season, Ragamala Dance Company is a world-renowned company. The Ramaswamy family members consider themselves lucky to be able to pursue what they love. And lucky to be able to do it all with each other.
Episodes
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Public TV Producer Leya Hale Explains Reclaiming Tobacco
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Rewire spoke with Twin Cities PBS associate producer Leya Hale about her connection to the topic and what it was like to produce a documentary all on her own for the first time.
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Work it: Pure Cycles | Four Fixed-Gear Bike-Loving Entrepren
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Meet Pure Cycles. Three grade school best friends that followed their passion for bicycling and made a successful business out of it.
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Happy Birthday PBS!
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What does PBS mean to you? To celebrate PBS's anniversary, here's the internet's love letter to public television.
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Duchess Harris Explains the Politics of Possibility
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Duchess Harris' grandmother, Mariam D. Mann, was among the first Black women who started working NASA in the 1940s
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The Fashion Story of Queen Victoria
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Did you know that the tradition of wearing a white wedding dress started with Queen Victoria? She was influential in more than just politics!
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Cohousing: Is it right for you?
6m 45s
Cohousing is the term for an intentional community of unrelated folks who live together—either in the same building or on the same land—and share the responsibility of maintaining the place they live.
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Grown Up Club
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As we get older, it can feel harder and harder to make friends. And, depending on your personality, it can be tough opening up to new people once you're in social situations.
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Reading My Coming Out Diaries
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Rewire's web editor reads her own journal entries spanning her coming out process—from denial to the aftermath of a difficult conversation.
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Work It: The Herbivorous Butcher | Sibling Entrepreneurs Wor
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Meet siblings Aubry and Kale Walch, co-owners of the vegan butcher shop The Herbivorous Butcher and learn how they started their business and the inspiration behind it. More at http://www.rewire.org/.
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Work It: Kady Lone and Pudge | A Cat & Owner Entrepreneurial
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Meet Kady Lone, a social media savvy human who used her smarts and skills to create a business for herself and her now Internet-famous cat, Pudge. More at http://www.rewire.org/.
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TV Takeover - Black Label Movement
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Black Label Movement collaborates with a range of performance groups off of the light rail, ending at a black and white affair themed prom in TPT’s studios. Dance performances by Black Label Movement, Hmong Breakers Leadership Council, Contempo Physical Dance and DanceBums. Musical performances by Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ultan, Andrea Reynolds, and more.
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TV Takeover - American Craft Council
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American Craft Council celebrates what it means to be a craft maker in Minnesota through “Craft Cage Match” activities such as blindfolded pot throwing, “Let’s Make” Inspiration Stations, craft trivia, and more.
Extras + Features
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TV Takeover - Black Label Movement | UMN
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Carl Flink of BLM also teaches a class at University of MN. The group performs a dance.
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TV Takeover - Black Label Movement | Contempo
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What happens when you mix two different Twin Cities dance companies? Something amazing and unexpected! Check out this collaboration between Contempo Dance and Black Label Movement.
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TV Takeover - Black Label Movement | HBLC Live
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The Hmong Breakers Leadership Council performs live!
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TV Takeover - Black Label Movement | Marciano
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Marciano from Contempo dance teaches the audience some moves.
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TV Takeover - Black Label Movement | Mambo
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BLM dancers kick of the show with a performance to West Side Story's "Mambo".
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TV Takeover - Black Label Movement | Canary
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This dance from Black Label Movement imagines a prom at the bottom of a coal mine.
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TV Takeover - Black Label Movement | Hive
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Dancers from BLM and the University of Minnesota perform "Hive" live.
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TV Takeover - American Craft Council |Blindfolded Pottery Vo
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Who will win this year's Craft Cage Match? Watch as the audience votes on whose blindfolded pot was best!
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TV Takeover - American Craft Council | Jennifer Merchant
2m 38s
Jennifer Merchant makes incredible jewelry - and it's a very complicated process! Take a peek.
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TV Takeover - American Craft Council | Trivia Round 1
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What happens when you get 6 artists together to play Family Feud style trivia? This craziness!
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TV Takeover-American Craft Council| Blindfolded Pottery Pt 1
6m 4s
Watch as our Craft Cage Match competitors duke it out in the final physical challenge: blindfolded pottery!
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TV Takeover - American Craft Council | Vet Turns Wood
4m 31s
Craft can be a healing art as much as hobby. Find out how one man used craft to overcome seemingly debilitating injuries after a surgery.
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