Viver Brasil - Classes / Masterclasses

SPECIAL SERIES:

The Water Series:

4 fabulous classes with 4 marvelous teachers in Badaró's Tuesday night class to benefit Viver Brasil Dance Company

4 class package series: $75 includes a Viver Brasil/Splash! A Celebration of Mermaids and the Sea t-shirt and participation in the procession, group photo, and access to the early morning ritual at the creek. Single class: $25 includes t-shirt.

March 25: Dani Lunn
April 1: Vida Vierra
April 8: Laila Abdullah
April 15: Rosangela Silvestre

8:00-9:30pm
Dance Arts Academy
731 S. LaBrea Ave., L.A.

April 19 at 11:30 am
Splash! Festival Procession
Fowler Museum/UCLA
www.fowler.ucla.edu

Mami Wata is swimming into the Fowler, and she needs your well-prepared hips to make it a rolling and rocking good time! Knowing full well that water is a universal solvent as well as a SOLVER, Viver Brasil has organized a timely series of dance classes to get you ready.

This new three part series will literally be your gift on the water to Viver Brasil. A fundraiser, each guest teacher is DONATING the door to the vitality and longevity of the company. So you get to come, learn some fantastic beautiful songs with our beloved Mãe de Santo from Bahia, Mainha, then dance like a river, sea, mermaid, lagoon, rain, waterfall or spring!

To top it off, this guarantees your spot in a mega-processional Splash! A Celebration of Mermaids and the Sea on April 19th at the Fowler. More details will follow.

Please support Viver Brasil, the Fowler Museum, yourselves (what about those New Year Resolutions?) and honor Mami Wata.

We are making many new ways to give and receive the gift of Afro-Brazlian dance, music, and culture. We can't wait to share them all with you.

Featured Teachers:
Dani Lunn, Vida Lunn, Laila Abdullah, Rosangela Silvestre

Live drumming with co-director Luiz Badaró leading drummers, Mario Pallais, Sandie Castaneda and guests.

You don't want to miss this!

For more information: email Linda Yudin at lkyudin@mac.com
or visit the website: www.viverbrasil.com

ON-GOING CLASSES:

Afro-Brazilian dance with Luiz Badaró, co-artistic director of Viver Brasil

Orixa dance technique, orixa dance movement and songs
Tuesdays 8:00-9:30 pm
Dance Arts Academy (DAA)
731 S. La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Single class: $15
Live drumming by Mario Pallais and guests

location map & directions
Dance Arts Academy: (323) 932-6230

Badaró’s Tuesday evening class (since 2000 at DAA) provides an opportunity to learn Afro-Brazilian dance vocabulary primarily from the orixa dance tradition with his energetic approach to his native Bahian dance culture. Tuesday’s class has also become a venue for Badaró and Viver Brasil to host visiting guest teachers from Brazil.

All levels welcome! Wear dance clothes or comfortable loose fitting clothing. We dance barefoot.

"As a teacher, choreographer, and musician, Badaró delivers without a word his art and culture in movements. He is the dance, the music, the voice and the rhythm, the embodiment of the spirit of Brazil." - Isabelle McHugh

For more information contact: lkyudin@mac.com

"Better than a workout at the gym. You'll leave soaking wet!

- Jameelah McMillan

“Badaró nurtures an exhilarating combination of artistic creativity and technical stamina while incorporating the magic of Afro-Brazilian culture.”

- Kimberly Mullen

"Badaró's class combines the sacred with the profane...and the discipline of dance with the physical manifestation of Afro-Brazilian culture. Take the class and get in shape both physically and spiritually! Tuesday nights on La Brea---you never know who will drop in (people or orixas)? It's one of the good things about being in LA. Like wearing flip flops in December or having coffee outdoors, or Brazilian music on the radio."

- Bernie Magier