Sunday, July 2, 2023

6:00 pm - 10:00 pm (Doors open 5:00 pm)

SummerStage, Central Park

Rumsey Playfield, Manhattan, 10021

A celebration of Brazilian and Portuguese culture, SummerStage imports some of the biggest names in Portuguese-language music to Central Park. Five-time Latin GRAMMY winner and Brazilian legend Marisa Monte has been gracing the airwaves for decades, becoming one of the country’s most recognizable voices in the process. Her 2021 LP Portas—her first in nearly ten years—is a timeless masterclass in MPB (música popular brasileira). As bright and buoyant as ever, Monte hasn’t skipped a beat. Duo Joana Amendoira and Fred Martins marry Brazilian fados and melodies that meet in the middle of the Atlantic, performing works from their latest albums Na Volte la Mare and Ultramarino, as well as works Martins composed with famed writer Tiago Torres da Silva. They’re joined by Music from the Sole, a tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap’s relationship with Afro-Brazilian dance and music, connecting its lineage to samba, house dance and passinho (Brazilian street funk). DJ Lara Gerin is on the ones and twos.

This program is supported by Brasil SummerFest and the Instituto Guimarães Rosa – Consulate General of Brazil in New York.

I Didn’t Come to Stay was commissioned by Works & Process and was

developed in Works & Process LaunchPAD residencies at Catskill

Mountain Foundation (2022) and Kaatsbaan Cultural Park (2020),

additional residency support provided by Jacob’s Pillow, Chelsea Factory,

and The Yard. Past performances have taken place at Jacob’s Pillow, the

Guggenheim Museum, Guild Hall, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Lincoln Center

for the Performing Arts, and New York City Center.

I Didn’t Come to Stay is supported by New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Additional support provided by The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation and APAP ArtsForward grant. Additional funding through a Seed Fund for Dance grant from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, thanks to the support of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Music From The Sole is supported by Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Ford Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and New Music USA’s New Music Organizational Fund.

Photo: Titus Ogilvie-Laing