Shoes of Migration: Cumbia, Ballet, Salsa, and Odissi

"This performance is created through cultural borders in a harmonious co-existence and co-creation. Cumbia, Ballet, Odissi, and Salsa join in New York as one: the ground where Elisa, Jeevika, Leonel, and Thiago perform at the crossroads of their artistic pathways. We migrate with dance shoes or barefoot, embodying cultures and lifestyles. Whether on pointe shoes, heels, or without shoes, we dance to encounter one another in a cultural exchange that transforms us. Sitar and percussion accompany our journeys in motion, while an authentic personal truth emerges across the borders of Colombia, Venezuela, India, Brazil, and the United States." - Elisa Toro Franky, director. “You are in an ongoing process of learning who and what you are through your participation in worlds that “are not yours”... Or are they?” - Galen Passen, sitarist and composer

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