Music and Dance of Brazil with Viver Brasil Dance Company November 19, 2008

This lecture/demonstration with co-artistic directors Linda Yudin and Luiz Badaró features Afro-Brazilian orixa dances as well as folkloric dances of Bahia. Viver Brasil is an award winning dance company firmly rooted in the traditional and contemporary forms and techniques of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil and currently receives support from the City of L.A. Cultural Affairs, L.A. County Arts Commission and the New England Foundation for the Arts. “Breathless and colorful... from the first sound of the atabaque drums, a surge of electricity sweeps through the audience.” – LA Weekly

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