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Friends Performing Arts Presents: MUSIC FROM THE SOLE

Music From the Sole is a tap dance and live music company that blurs the line between concert dance and music performance and celebrates tap’s roots in the African diaspora. Led by Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and composer and bassist Gregory Richardson, I Didn’t Come to Stay explores themes of immigration and family, and pulses with influences from Afro-Brazilian, jazz, soul, house, rock, and Afro-Cuban music.  Commissioned by Works & Process at the Guggenheim in 2020, the piece was first supported through a pioneering bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in summer 2020. 

This program is made possible by the Friends of Greenwich Library.  Recommended for ages 10+.

Check out one of the fabulous Brazilian authors we have in our collection with our Literature from the Sole booklist. 

Date:
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Time:
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Berkley Theater
Audience:
  Adult  
Categories:
  Friends     Theater and Performance  

Registration is required. There are no seats available but a waiting list is available.

Choreographed by Leonardo Sandoval.
Music by Gregory Richardson, with Leonardo Sandoval, Josh Davis, Magela Herrera, Noé Kains, and Jennifer Vincent
Lighting Design by Kathy Kaufmann
Costume Design by Dede Ayite
Sound Design by Christopher Marc

I Didn’t Come to Stay was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts‘ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This project is funded, in part, through a Seed Fund for Dance grant from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation thanks to the support of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. The piece’s creation was also supported by a 2022 grant from the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, and a 2022 APAP ArtsForward grant. Music From the Sole is supported by Dance/NYC’s Dance Advancement Fund, made possible by the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Ford Foundation, and by the New York State Council on the Arts.