Name: dancing home
Start: 2024-09-28T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-28T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Longy School of Music of Bard College

dancing home

Palaver Strings is a musician-led string ensemble and nonprofit organization based in Portland, ME. Founded in 2014, Palaver is a forward-thinking ensemble whose mission is to strengthen and inspire community. Palaver has toured widely and enjoyed residencies at Rockport Music, Boston Center for the Arts, Bay Chamber Concerts, and Longy School of Music, where ensemble members teach workshops, master classes, and graduate courses on music and community engagement. Palaver’s most recent album Ready or Not (Azica Records, 2022) has received acclaim by publications such as The Guardian and BBC Music Magazine. In 2019, Palaver launched the Palaver Music Center, which now serves hundreds of students each year from our downtown Portland location.

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Get ready to groove and move at Dancing Home, where we'll dance the night away surrounded by good vibes and great tunes!

Longy School of Music of Bard College

Dancing Home explores themes of heritage, belonging, displacement, and resilience through the lens of dance. At the heart of this program is the world premiere of ḥawwāsh by Kareem Roustom. Inspired by the ḥawwāsh, or lead dancer of a traditional dabke dance, this piece allows any musician to lead the ensemble at any given moment, sharing fluid leadership through physical and sonic cues. This program also features Palaver’s arrangement of Bartok’s Romanian Dances, original fiddle tunes by Palaver violinist Maya French, and Kinan Azmeh’s Syrian Dances, commissioned by Palaver in 2022. Dancing Home celebrates social dance as a meeting place for tradition and innovation, and a vehicle for building resilience, joy, and trust.

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