MOSAIC AMERICA: JOURNEY THROUGH MULTICULTURAL JAZZ & DANCE

Creating a mosaic of music by ReroRera & friends and dances rooted in the traditions of India, Mexico, and the Silk Road!

Aug 13, Sunday 1pm

Hammer Theatre Stage

All Stages and Higher Ticket RequiredGenre(s): Dance, Global

 

ReroRera duo is in a continuous search for common grounds, paths and, ultimately, a common expressive language of different ethnic musical traditions.

Zaza Korinteli – better known by his stage name Zumba – is a Georgian ethnic-jazz-rock musician and musicologist who’s music fuses a wide variety of genres, both Georgian folk tradition and other world music inspirations. He is a multi-instrumentalist on guitar, bass, Georgian Phanduri and other wind instruments, percussions and vocals.

Sergey Prokushkin is a jazz pianist and composer with a multicultural background focusing on a variety of world folk music with South American, Middle Eastern and European flavor.

Simorgh Dance Collective, led by Farima Berenji will create a bridge between music and movement through her renditions of traditions from Persia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, among others, while visually creating a pathway to a significant milestone along the Silk Road, India.

Xpressions Dance will create immersive experiences of India through dynamic movements tapping into the spontaneous energies of the dancers and the audience, and then collaborate with and hand off to Mexican-traditions.

Master artist Arturo Magana will continue the journey by taking us back to Europe, with Spanish influenced and original Mexican music and dance.

The audience and artists will then together, create memories by joining together in a joyful movement of musical Belonging!