Aspen Santa Fe Ballet wraps up its winter season with contemporary Brazilian dance flair. Grupo Corpo, translated as “Body Group,” performs Tuesday at Aspen District Theater. The company began in 1975 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – For the very first time ...
A samba class performs in Rio de Janeiro. There’s an expression here in Brazil: “Tudo acaba em samba.” Translated literally, the phrase means “Everything ends in samba.” That is to say, no matter what ...
Like African slaves in 19th-century Brazil, University student Camila Esposel practices capoeira. But, unlike the slaves, she does the dance to keep in touch with her culture, not as a form of ...
Viver Brasil, a homegrown Los Angeles dance organization that does Brazil (and Los Angeles) proud. That unforgettable evening happened 18 years ago, and Viver Brasil remains as strong and as vital a ...
Since its founding in 1975, Grupo Corpo has traveled the world, introducing audiences in hundreds of locales to the sensuous rhythms of popular Brazilian dance. One of the highlights of the group’s ...
A performance by the Afro-Brazilian dance company Viver Brasil. Photo courtesy of Viver Brasil. The Afro-Brazilian dance company Viver Brasil premiered a dance-and-music performance called “Revealed” ...
For Long Beach resident Paz Kinnaman, dancing has always been how she expresses herself and connects with others. So when her local dance halls shuttered early last year because of the coronavirus ...
Joya Powell is the 2016 Bessie Award winner for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer and Artistic Director of the acclaimed Movement of the People Dance Company. She along with a number of other artists ...