Music From The Sole is a tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap’s Afro-diasporic roots, particularly its connections to Afro-Brazilian dance and music, and its lineage to forms like house dance and passinho (Brazilian funk).
Led by Brazilian dancer/choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and by bassist/composer Gregory Richardson, their work embraces tap’s blend of sound and movement, incorporating wide-ranging influences like samba, passinho, Afro-Cuban, jazz and house.
As part of the CUNY Dance Initiative, Music From The Sole will hold an Open Rehearsal on April 27 to offer us a behind-the-scenes look at select works they are currently creating. Join Us!
MUSIC FROM THE SOLE’s residency at Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture is part of the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI), which receives major support from The Mertz Gilmore Foundation and Howard Gilman Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Jerome Robbins Foundation, SHS Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, the National Endowment for the Arts, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. CDI is part of Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. CDI is spearheaded by The Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College.
www.cuny.edu/danceinitiative
