The Musicians

The dance performance in each city will begin with music, selected by the local choreographers, that is pertinent to their site. The second half of each dance will be performed to music that will be the same world-wide. The Steering Committee is very pleased to announce that the music for the Global Section of the our world-wide performances will be a sound track created by Nicolas Soto Urrea. To read about the musicians from the previous Global Water Dances events, click here

Nicolas Soto Urrea
Nicolas Soto
Chilean music composer and music therapist. He specializes in soundtracks compositions for audiovisual media and performing arts, and has participated as a multi-instrumentalist in diverse music bands and record productions of World Music. At the end of 2016 begins a process of collaboration with Global Water Dances to give life to new music:

“The process of the musical composition for Global Water Dances began with a strong inspiration in sensations and sounds recorded in a trip to the Iguazu Falls, emblem of life, strength and majesty of the water. In music, sounds from different places and contexts are fused, so watery and ethnic instruments such as the Kalimbas and the Udu from Africa are fused with instruments common in Western chamber music and orchestra such as the French Horn, Piano and Harp. One of the main melodies is in charge of an Ecological Flute that has been made with materials recycled by the musician Juan Ortiz Obando in similarity to the Quena, traditional Latin American flute. In contrast, part of the music reflects problematic as the water scarce and the imminent struggle for the precious resource, there the Duduk of Armenia invites us to the reflection with a song of lament while dancing with the depth and dramatismo of the Violin interpreted by Lorena Correa Posada. The piece seeks to excite us to move and thus be one with the dance to create awareness and honor the Water, the main component of the bodies that will come into action.”
For more information, please visit www.nicolassoto.com

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