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João Saldanha x Laura Bruno = Who hasn’t loved the subtle elegance…
by Laura Bruno on Adventure between Birds by João Saldanha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfBGWMSiG4Q
flock birds.
silver satin panel.
velvet pants. wet.
plush.
sculptural bodies in bikinis.
and colorful swimwear.
tense atmosphere music.
choreos in unison.
in canon.
the white bird.
is also a funk lover.
the black bird.
is also a step dancer.
she’s carioca.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwmjBCX3Yic
she’s carioca.
she’s carioca.
they’re cariocas.
hold on right there milord ‘cos the baião* mulato
is black-tie-ing himself
and he tuxes all of himself in the arrastão** esthetics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4hb6fcIeM8
birds. monkeys. hens. pigs. spiders. Benguelê***. grupo corpo.
bats.
bat(man/men) also flock through the theater.
antropomorphic.dance.swamian.
as tradition demands.
as John lennon da silva.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceKWv9V-Yw
well remembered, ferron.[1]
ah, the tropicalia*.
ah, the antropophagia**.
ah, the third world andy warholian pop swallowing.
ah, the sharp irreverence of the red man[2].
wonderful divine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emc1Oaop_z8
in the general Brazilian jam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUGAvbIzNjo
the pleasure of dancing.
who hasn’t sounded the modern dance breathing?
who hasn’t danced in canon?
who hasn’t sensualized the classics?
who hasn’t slid on the floor in the 90s?
who hasn’t rolled on the floor winvandekeybunianly[3] in the 90s?
who hasn’t…?
*brazilian artistic movement of theatre, poetry, and music in the late 60s. it combined the popular and the avant-garde, as well as a fusion of traditional brazilian culture with foreign influences.
**brazilian artistic movement in the 20s that intended to create the brazilian esthetics, accepting the foreign influence it already had, but not being limited by it.
[1] also on show with baderna.
[2] marcelo braga, on show too.
[3] also on show with o que o corpo não lembra.
Translation Portuguese-English: Chris Ritchie, M.A.