Swell
Thirty artists collaborate to bring you a live, online song cycle called Swell, weaving together ten original, new music compositions by ten composers drawing from their personal histories as immigrants and children of immigrants. Hailing from Mexico, India, Israel, Japan, Trinidad, the Philippines, Russia, and Taiwan, the composers’ unique, surprising, and deeply human stories are expressed through voice, piano, cello, and violin.
This program will be accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing community via captions and ASL interpretation, and will incorporate dynamic visuals.
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Swell, live and online, originally premiered from March 17-21, 2021. An archive of the performance is available for viewing through the ticketing link below.
SWELL would like to thank Beth Prevor, Jay Alan Zimmerman, Ben Krywosz, Tania León, Cristian Amigo, American Composers Forum, New Music USA, Kristin Marting and everyone at HERE, for their extraordinary help and encouragement.
Support for SWELL is provided by the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts. Support for ASL interpretation on this production is provided in part through funding from Access A.R.T./New York, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York). Media creation assistance for SWELL is provided in part by Innovations in Socially Distant Performance, which studies the aesthetics, philosophies, tools, and artists transforming virtual live performance and socially distant productions, and how these practices will innovate the arts when we can gather again; ISDP is directed by Elena Araoz and housed at Princeton University.