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Soles of Duende’s The Kitchen
New York City Center Studio 5
(excerpt from work-in-progress, with live music)
Celebrating 10 years of collaboration, Soles of Duende is three female dance practitioners (Brinda Guha, Amanda Castro & Arielle Rosales), working in different percussive dance legacies, accompanied by three live, on-stage musicians (Ryan the Arktitect, Okai Musik & AJ Jagannath). With each of our cultures valuing post-meal gatherings, we arrive in our communal kitchen to ask the question: when conflicts are present, how do families continue to gather? In “The Kitchen,” we write the musical recipes that we’ve always needed, for the meals that nourish our bodies and the ideas that center our diversity and keep us returning to the table time and time again.
“The Kitchen” is a joyous full-evening work featuring the percussive dance forms of Tap, Flamenco & Kathak, accompanied by live music. The dancers and musicians share and adapt rhythms through music and movement, creating expansive worlds of intimacy and connection. Performance exchanges shift from a six-beat partner-facing Sevillanas into a trio composition, morphing into an emotional 16-beat character gat, to a play on the world-renowned communal Shim Sham, and more. The instrumentation includes trumpet, guitar, and a range of percussive instruments, including djembe, petwo, and cajón. The full-length performance embraces joy while acknowledging the challenge of difference.
This show will premiere on the 26-27 season.
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