Irene Koloseus & Sound Bridges

Sound Bridges
Brooklyn Older Adult Center Concert Series 2024 with Sound Bridges
Artistic Discipline: Multidisciplinary
Category: Brooklyn Arts FundLocal Arts Support
Grant Year: 2024
Location: Brownsville

Formed in 2019, Sound Bridges is a New York-based performance group with a mission to explore world music and dance in order to create new works fusing several genres: West African, jazz, flamenco and tap. While staying true to their roots, the collective is interested in constructing new rhythmic conversations. They present all original compositions drawn from African and jazz influences featuring the ancient sounds of the balafon, a wooden xylophone central to the Mande music traditions of West Africa. The multi-cultural group Sound Bridges fuses elements from various dance forms and cultures, emphasizing musicality, vulnerability, and authenticity. Percussive dance, polyrhythms, West African dance movements, improvisation, and the passionate grace of flamenco dance are the components that characterize their choreography. Sound Bridges strives to connect audiences to the unifying power musicians and dancers can create.

The project "Brooklyn Older Adult Center Concert Series 2024 with the group Sound Bridges" offers free concerts in adult centers and nursing homes across various Brooklyn neighborhoods. Established in 2019, Sound Bridges is a multicultural performance group based in Brooklyn that blends elements of West African music with jazz, flamenco, and tap. Their repertoire consists entirely of original compositions inspired by African and jazz influences, prominently featuring the balafon, a wooden xylophone central to the Mande music traditions of West Africa. Sound Bridges endeavors to connect audiences to the unifying power of musicians and dancers.