Articles tagged with: Dance
Grupo Corpo and its spectacular coreographies
“All facets of Brazil, past and future, erudite and popular, foreign influence and local color, and the urban and the …
Scary: Popeye, Mickey and Captain America dancing pagode
Trenzinho Carreta Furacão is a creatively kistch, slightly creepy street dance group from Ribeirão Preto (one of the biggest cities …
35 years of Cisne Negro Dance Company
Cisne Negro Dance Company, that together with Grupo Corpo, has one of the longest and most successful careers among Brazilian …
When the Native dance
The 225 remaining Brazilian native ethnicity have a wide range of dance traditions. These are some of them:
Brazilian batucada around the world
Batucada, the joyful, noisy, fast pace percussive ensemble, capable of speeding up one’s pulse, is gaining the world.
Dzi Croquettes – Rio’s revolutionary cabaret
Picture this: in the early seventies, the worst moment of the military rule that installed censorship and strict morality, 13 hairy guys from Rio would wear heavy make up, high heels and miniskirts on a stage.
