Found Sound Nation Presents: Hear Be Dragons
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Thursday, June 23rd 7pm
Found Sound Nation and the Bertha Foundation present Hear Be Dragons, a unique collaborative performance between young artists from South Africa and Brooklyn. This performance features the works created during a yearlong sonic exploration and exchange between these artists from the township of Nyanga, Cape Town, South Africa and The El Puente Arts Academy in Brooklyn, New York City. The performance will also feature collaboration with renowned US and South African musicians and performers – Kyla-Rose Smith, Andrew Orkin of Tiger + Man, puppeteer and theatre maker Karen Zasloff, and award winning vocalist Vuyo Sotashe.
Kyla-rose Smith Biography
Kyla-rose Smith is the violinist and backing singer with Freshlyground, South Africa’s premier Afropop band. She has toured extensively inside and beyond South Africa with Freshlyground, who have garnered many awards including seven South African Music Awards (SAMA) awards, most recently the 2013 award for Group of the Year, an MTV Europe Award, and four METRO awards. Kyla was also a recipient of the Glamour Woman of the Year Award 2011. As a member of South Africa’s top touring band Kyla has developed a keen interest in the art of performance and how musicians interact with their audience through the medium of sound and music, while bridging cultural divides.
Hannah Loewenthal Biography
Hannah Loewenthal grew up in Cape Town, South Africa and originally studied design and worked as an architectural glass artist in the UK. In 2002 whilst in London ,Hannah discovered dance and on returning to Cape Town in 2004, she went on to train and work with Remix Dance Company for two years, performing as well as developing many of the schools’; programs, including design aspects of Remix performance works, contributing to the development of integrated movement work in Africa.
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