Edna Lima's Brazilian Cultural Performance
Mestranda Edna Lima and Abadá Capoeira New York
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Mario Pereira • Silvana Marquina • Kiki da Bahia • Furacão
Long Island University Dance Faculty Performance
Friday and Saturday, November 3-4, 8:00pm
presenting new works by the LIU Dance Faculty
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a special presentation by Abadá Capoeira New York
Kumble Theater
Tickets $15 online or box office
Directions
New and established works from Dance Department faculty
Jazz, modern, ballet, world dance ... and Capoeira
Edna Lima produces a dynamic dialogue with the audience
Presenting traditional Brazilian cultural forms: Orixas, Maculele, Capoeira
Edna Lima and featured dancers Mario, Silvana, Kiki, Furacão and Abadá Capoeira New York, will present a dynamic dialogue with the audience ... performing traditional Brazilian cultural forms: Orixas, Maculele, Capoeira, and Capoeira Workout®.
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Edna Lima is an internationally distinguished martial artist and sports scientist. Her lifelong study of Brazilian Capoeira has taken her around the world with Abadá Capoeira, Dance Brazil, Njinga, Ologundê, and the motion picture Rooftops.
Mestranda Lima was the world's first female mestra of Capoeira and successfully adapted the dynamic movements of Capoeira into her trademarked Capoeira Workout®, combining the elegance of dance, the power of martial arts, and the rhythms of Afro-Brazilian music.
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Mario Pereira is a virtuoso Brazilian dancer and Angola Capoeirista who has trained and performed throughout Brazil and North America. His unique insights into movement come from a lifetime of movement study in Salvador, Bahia ... the birthplace of African culture in Brazil. He performed for several years with Ballet Stagium in S&atiled;o Paulo, Brazil and now works in New York as a choreographer, dancer and Capoeirista.
Mario's performances invoke Brazilian axé, the music and dance of Bahia, the cradle of the Afro-Brazilian sound. He appears regularly with the Afro-Brazilian band Ogans, "They electrify the stage, and the audience, with their presence, sending forth their energy and passion for the music of Bahia, cradle of Afro-Brazilian culture."
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Silvana Marquina is the face of Samba in New York and was featured in the television production "Dance of the Orixas".
She has studied and perfomed with Brazil's Ballet Stagiu, Arentina's Ballet Teatro Argentino ... in New York she has appeared at Lincoln Center, Radio City, Carnigie Hall, Symphony Space ... and performed in the White House for the National Fellowship Awards.
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Kiki da Bahia is a native Bahiano, Capoeira instructor, and cultural performer. He has appeared with Gilberto Gil (Brazil's current Minister of Culture), Grupo Ginga Capoeira, and Ogans.
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Furacão is a Capoeira instructor with Abada Capoeira, and has performed at Columbia, Yale, Baruch, the Bronx Museum of Arts, GQ Men of the Year Awards.
Capoeira is a martial art developed in Brazil by enslaved Africans. They disguised the fighting techniques as a dance done with grace and style.
Music and traditional instruments reflect the nature of Capoeira performance and include the signature Berimbau which sets the rhythm and atabaque drum. The songs are call-and-refrain subtext of Afro-Brazilian culture and the current performance.
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Maculele was created by enslaved Africans working on sugar cane plantations. The sticks used in the dance resemble stalks of sugar cane and machetes. Maculele was developed in the Quilombos, rebel slave nations, in Brazil. Like Capoeira, it is a martial art disguised as a dance.
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Orixas are a fundamental part of African spirituality and live on in Brazilian Candomble, Cuban Santeria, and Caribbean Santeria or Ifa. Like Capoeira the practice was repressed for many generations.
