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COME UP SNAKE – THE SNAKE IS COMING UP!!!
Party on 11/09/2013 at SESC Dance Biennial 2013 by Karin Serafin
Foot loose
Dirty Dancing
Saturday Night Fever (but on a Wednesday) Staying Alive
Yes… We are all happy and staying alive…
Multicultural spontaneous collective manifestations!
The events listed below north an overview about the reunion of the participant artists of the SESC Dance Biennial 2013, Wednesday (September 11). But not necessarily in the same order, even less in order of importance; and regardless of what this text may suggest, they were not as subtle and discreet!
The Battle – the circle that opens in the middle of the dance floor so that the individual virtuosity may be exposed. Wagner Schwartz opened the circle, enlarged the space, made the vogue and the fallen bridge! Meanwhile, Sheila (the crasher) Ribeiro crossed the space in happy grand jetés.
The Russian Dance – people entwined in a circle go up and down.
Greek Circle – people entwined in a circle too go round and round (no, nobody had the brilliant idea to break SESC’s dishes).
Little Popcorn Train – the typical Brazilian carnival train dance, but sexier with more thigh into thigh!
Lambada in a Bunch – she begins with a couple. Then, everybody else joins this couple, always back to back, making a long swinging line.
Meat Ball – a typical manifestation of the 90s, which is nothing more than a big human ball on the dance floor.
The Bottle Dance – touch the bottle mouth, it’s on the bottle mouth, go down, go a little further down….. that’s right, and that explains it! The most surprising of all was that the one who proposed the dance was a Japanese woman (where are you from?) quite excitedly followed by a sweet Uruguayan.
Vogue / Waacking – the dance in which everything begins and ends in the arms.
And other manifestations that don’t need explanations, such as:
Boi bumba, The Machinery Party (“da aparelhagem”), Afro Dance. (Ah, THE AFRO DANCE (!!!) and the link established between the Afro and Michael Jackson’s Thriller Night. Just like him, Aline Blasius can also synthetize in the body the expressions of the African culture! Their dance comes from the earth, from the root! They are the color and the dance of the city and we all are!
People also enacted “The Lion King” and played Shiva!
Maybe all the words ere are meaningless for people who weren’t there on Wednesday, in that human ball on the dark blue dance floor surrounded by DJ Dolores’ multiethnic, multicultural, multistuff sound. Suddenly everything became dark blue with people. Maybe the people there also have a mixed up memory and an endless trace in the body.
Ps.: I can’t leave out the mysterious and instigating participations of:
1. the Japanese woman on the curb;
2. the Jaspion Duo of capoeira fought between the Japanese on the curb and Alejandro;
3. the man in the wheelchair;
4. new Anderson’s agitating agitation;
5. the Chilean who only left her body sheet to fetch a coconut in the “kiosco”…. (mira, casi sin dedos!)
6. the Uruguayans! Always so enigmatically and captivatingly Uruguayan!
Karin Serafin, ballerina. Has dedicated half of her life to Grupo Cena 11. A month ago she starred as interpreter/creator/aloneonstage.