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Aruán Ortiz's Reimagining Tropiques, Then And Now / Kāfou: Val Jeanty, Cassie Watson Francillon at Greenwich House Music School

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Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street
New York, NY
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212-242-4770

Aruán Ortiz's Reimagining Tropiques, Then And Now / Kāfou: Val Jeanty, Cassie Watson Francillon at Greenwich House Music School

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Sat, November 23, 2024
7:00 pm

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Reimagining Tropiques: Then and Now is a collaboration between Aruán Ortiz and Anaïs Maviel, with cellist and composer Aliya Ultan. The project considers writings on negritude, creolization, and transatlantic Surrealism published by the iconic Martinican magazine Tropiques (1941–1945), and explores the cultural syncretism between French modernism and the Afro-Caribbean experience. Focusing on the work of Suzanne and Aimé Césaire and their wider community of writers and intellectuals, the score integrates Afro-Caribbean rhythms and chants, contemporary classical music, jazz improvisation, poetry, and spoken word. ...

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