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The Company
In 1977 DanceBrazil was founded by Jelon Vieira after evolving from grass-roots workshops at the Clark Center for the Arts in NYC. Alvin Ailey joined the board of directors in 1980 and helped focus the objectives of DanceBrazil, emphasizing the company’s ability to speak to a broad North American community. Within a few years, DanceBrazil premiered at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. In 1985, DanceBrazil premiered Orfeo Negro at the Riverside Dance Festival to critical and popular acclaim.
For over thirty years, DanceBrazil has thrilled audiences across the Unites States and throughout the world with its dazzling artistry, which is inspired by the cultural tapestry of Brazil. Whether in the streets or on stage in the most prestigious theaters, the dancers and musicians of DanceBrazil never fail to enthrall audiences with the company’s unique fusion of Afro-Brazilian movement, contemporary dance and Capoeira, the traditional dance/martial arts form that had its origins in Africa and evolved in colonial Brazil as a means of fighting enslavement.
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- Capoeira 3,185 photos, 621 members
- Capoeira! 288 photos, 108 members
- Artistic Capoeira Shots 283 photos, 271 members
- CAPOEIRA AROUND THE WORLD 1,648 photos, 441 members
- Brazil Vídeos 46 photos, 237 members
- Videos from Brazil - Videos Brasileiros 57 photos, 230 members
- Grupo Capoeira Brazil NYC - Spring 2006 Batizado 256 photos, 10 members
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