Honoring Saint John
Saint John’s festival, celebrated today, is a delicious fake celebration of rural lifestyle, with all the surreal stereotypes that this entitles. It has, almost inevitably, […]
Dance
Xote, Brazilian version of a Scottish/German dance
Normally, when a Brazilian refers to xote, he is talking about a dance fairly common in the Northeast region, similar to forró. Curiously, the word […]
Swan Lake meets street dance
John Lennon da Silva, a mind-blowing 20 year old street dancer, interprets the scene of the swan’s death, from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake – one of […]
Samba de roda, mother of Rio’s Carnival
These pre-Carnival days, turn your eyes and ears to Bahia and discover the music that inspired Rio’s Carnival. Samba de Roda, considered by Unesco an […]