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Profile view of Farah Siraj smiling, while sitting with a guitar in front of a microphone.
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Farah Siraj: Diggi Ya Rababa | MetLiveArts
Named Jordan's “Musical Ambassadress,” Farah Siraj’s unique idiom melds influences from Arabian music, flamenco, and jazz.
March 25, 2024
Two members of Alsarah & the Nubatones in performance. The figure on the left is singing, while the figure on the right plays guitar.
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Alsarah & the Nubatones: Nuba Noutou | MetLiveArts
Founded in 2011, Alsarah & the Nubatones have dubbed their sound “East African retro-pop.”
March 18, 2024
Emel Mathlouthi in performance, standing in front of a microphone with arms outstretched.
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Emel Mathlouthi: Fi Kolli Yawmen | MetLiveArts
Emel Mathlouthi's viral anthem of the Arab Spring earned her the title “voice of the Tunisian revolution.”
March 8, 2024
Cécile McLorin Salvant performing in the Unicorn Tapestries room at The Met Cloisters.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant at The Met Cloisters: Dame Iseut
In July 2023 MetLiveArts welcomed three-time GRAMMY®-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant for an exclusive recording session in the Unicorn Tapestries Room at The Met Cloisters. For Salvant, also a skilled textile artist, the tapestries have been a source of inspiration.
November 16, 2023
Cécile McLorin Salvant performing in the Unicorn Tapestries room at The Met Cloisters.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant at The Met Cloisters: D’un feu secret
In July 2023 MetLiveArts welcomed three-time GRAMMY®-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant for an exclusive recording session in the Unicorn Tapestries Room at The Met Cloisters
November 13, 2023
Dancers from Ballet Hispánico perform at the courtyard level of the Robert Lehmann Wing at The Met Fifth Avenue.
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Ballet Hispánico: Buscando a Juan
For this MetLiveArts commission, Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro reacts to the ideas presented in the exhibit Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter with Buscando a Juan (“Looking for Juan”) and explores the “sancocho”—literally, mixed soup—of cultures and diasporas.
September 19, 2023
A smiling Anthony Roth Costanzo in a colorful floral shirt
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Cristofori Piano: “Lascia Ch'io Panga” by George Frideric Handel | Met Music
Anthony Roth Costanzo and Bryan Wagorn perform “Lascia Ch'io Panga” by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) on the earliest known surviving piano.
June 22, 2023
A woman stands on stage wearing a matching brown tunic and pants. Her arms are raised over her head with her palms pressed together.
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Bijayini Satpathy: Dohā
In her fifth and final performance as 2021-2022 MetLiveArts Artist in Residence, the incomparable choreographer and dancer Bijayini Satpathy built on her prior explorations of movement and art with “Dohā.”
May 29, 2023
A woman stands wearing an orange sari and red bindi between her eyes. Her arms are held up near her head with her hands making a gesture. Behind her is a whitewall and green plant.
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Bijayini Satpathy in the Galleries: Naino (Astor Chinese Garden Court)
In “Naino,” a courtyard within a scholar’s garden in the city of Suzhou, China inspires a narrative exploration of a poem by Kabir, a 15th-century Indian mystic claimed by both Hindu and Islamic traditions.
May 22, 2023
The dancer Bijayini Satpathy stands before a colorful draped canvas by the artist Sam Gilliam in the modern and contemporary galleries of The Met.
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Bijayini Satpathy in the Galleries: Antaranga (Modern and Contemporary Art) | MetLiveArts
MetLiveArts 2021–22 Artist in Residence Bijayini Satpathy’s performance is set against Sam Gilliam’s chromatically striking and texturally dynamic drape painting Carousel State (1968).
May 15, 2023