Highlights from Music From The Sole’s 2023 Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence.

Music From The Sole is a tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap's Afro-diasporic roots, particularly its connections to Afro-Brazilian dance and music, and its lineage to forms like house dance and passinho (Brazilian funk). Led by Brazilian choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and by composer Gregory Richardson, their work embraces tap’s unique nature as a blend of sound and movement, incorporating wide-ranging influences like samba, passinho, Afro-Cuban, jazz, and house.

Through the residency program at Guild Hall, the company is developing material for a new evening-length work of tap, Afro-Brazilian, house dance, and original live music. This new piece will dig deeper into the company’s focus on creating and presenting tap dance as both movement and music, with their inseparable choreographic and compositional processes.

The work developed by Music From The Sole while in-residence is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund project co-commissioned by The Yard, Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc., Works and Process, Inc., Guild Hall of East Hampton, Jacob's Pillow, Dance Place, and NPN.

Learn more about the Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence program - https://www.guildhall.org/education/a...

Guild Hall’s Learning + New Works programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional major support comes from The Patti Kenner Arts Education Fellowship, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.

Guild Hall William P. Rayner Artist-in-Residence Principal Sponsor: Kathy Rayner in memory of her husband, Billy Rayner