Featuring Millennial Twins Riya and Sara Kapoor With Music
and Orchestra Arrangement By Conductor and Choreographer Guru Swati Bhise
Bridgefest 2017,
under the auspices of Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc. will present A Bridge
Together, a special concert and Newport Jazz Festival® "extra" that
connects Jazz, African Beats and Indian Carnatic music, on Thursday, August 3,
at 6:30 pm on the Quad Stage at Fort Adams State Park.
This pre-Newport Jazz Festival event will showcase the
multicultural connections between music and movement. The two-part concert
features dance segments by 17-year old twins, Riya and Sara Kapoor, accompanied
by a Carnatic music orchestra featuring musicians from India. Guru Swati Bhise is the Conductor and
Choreographer for the music and orchestra arrangement for this dance segment.
The jazz quartet will be led by award-winning guitarist Rez Abbasi and West
African compositions, directed by the noted West African choreographer and
dancer, Maguette Camara.
Fusing Indian, African and American dance and music
traditions, A Bridge Together raises the question for the audience: "Are
we so different after all?"
Part I is an exploration of music from West Africa, India
and the US. Part II introduces the expressive, athletic Kapoor sisters, whose
study of Bharatanatyam led to their first appearance on stage at age 15 at
their debut event at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Newport Festivals Foundation
CEO/founder George Wein was in the audience when Riya and Sara made their debut
and was determined to bring some of the magic he saw on stage to Newport.
"These young women are tremendous," said Wein.
"The dances are very intricate and beautiful, but what I loved is how they
brought jazz into these very traditional art forms. They've modernized the
dances in a wonderful way while adding a delightfully different perspective to
jazz music."
The Newport Folk Festival (www.newportfolk.org) takes place
at Fort Adams State Park July 28-30, 2017 followed by Newport Jazz Festival
presented by Natixis Global Asset Management (www.newportjazz.org) August 4-6,
2017 at Fort Adams and the International Tennis Hall of Fame at the Newport
Casino.
Newport Festivals Foundation was founded by George Wein in
2010 to build and continue the legacies of the famed Newport Jazz Festival® and
Newport Folk Festival®. For more information, please visit
www.newportfestivalsfoundation.org.
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