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Recognition by Sara Serpa at Alwan For The Arts
Courtesy of Brown Paper Tickets | Posted on March 20, 2018
Where
Alwan For The Arts
16 Beaver Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY
Map
212-967-4318
When
Thu, March 22, 2018
7:00 pm
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About
Recognition by Sara Serpa
A unique interdisciplinary performance, Recognition melds powerful film imagery with live music. Singer and composer, Sara Serpa, directs and produces a visual narrative using never-seen footage which was recently discovered in her family archives in Portugal and Angola. This extraordinary ensemble, featuring Zeena Parkins (harp) and Mark Turner (saxophone), probes deep into the emotional core of this era through scored material and flowing improvisation.
The segments were shot in the 1960s in the fomer colony ruled by Salazars notorious fascist regime. The material has been edited and transformed to create a sensory experience in which music and image, highlighted with texts by the revolutionary, Amílcar Cabral, invite the viewer/listener to reflect on history in a visceral way....