DANCE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2019
7:30 PM

Olivier Tarpaga: When Birds Refused to Fly
Crossing the Line Festival
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan

$35; $15 students & under 30
https://crossingthelinefestival.org/2019/events/when-birds-refused-to-fly/

Dancer/choreographer/musician Olivier Tarpaga's father was in a really terrific band, Super Volta, in Burkina Faso in the '70s. Toparga uses that music as a soundtrack to a dance-theater exploration of civil and political rights struggles in Sub-Saharan Africa in that time and the decade before.

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