Recycled Toy Sculptures

As I have a new family member, a small cute dog, I brought to you today some beautiful and creative sculptures of dogs, created by Robert Bradford, he creates his life-size and larger-than-life sculptures of humans and animals from discarded plastic items, mainly toys but also other colorful plastic bits and pieces, such as combs and buttons, brushes and parts of clothes pegs. Isn´t cute?
So until the new dog of my family does not know how to dance samba I will try to find another way how to give him some fun:)

Have a nice week all of you!

P.S. Tomorrow starts samba-axé summer classes. Check it out with a click on my picture at the right side of the blog.

Body Paiting

Maybe I just found a great solution to survive this hot weather in Prague those days:) I guess I will choose some of those ideas!
Body painting was very common used in the early 12th to mid 14th century by religious practitioners in rituals. This is an example of Gothic Art. It was common in the areas of countries we now refer to as France and Germany. Examples were displayed on frescoes, but primarily worn by members of the church clergy under robes. Primarily symbols on the arms, chest and back, these forms of identification led to Dalecarlian form of writing found in many northern European countries.

There has been a revival of body painting in the Western society since the 1960s, in part prompted by the liberalization of social mores regarding nudity and often comes in sensationalist or exhibitionist forms.[1] Even today there is a constant debate about the legitimacy of body painting as an art form. The current modern revival could be said to date back to the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago where Max Factor and his model were arrested for causing a public disturbance when he bodypainted her with his new make-up formulated for Hollywood films.

Body painting led to a minor alternative art movement in the 1950s and 1960s, which involved covering a model in paint and then having the model touch or roll on a canvas or other medium to transfer the paint. French artist Yves Klein is perhaps the most famous for this, with his series of paintings 'Anthropometries'. The effect produced by this technique creates an image-transfer from the model's body to the medium. This includes all the curves of the model's body (typically female) being reflected in the outline of the image. This technique was not necessarily monotone; multiple colors on different body parts sometimes produced interesting effects.

Summer lessons:)

Every summer we have the chance to keep going our Samba-Axé classes and this summer it won’t be different! :)

Come to learn how to move your body nicely, to get a good mood for the whole summer and to have funny moments in a class full of energy and happiness.

Sigh in NOW, the number of students for the summer classes are always limited!

www.sambaonline.cz

Every Tuesday from 20th of July to 31st of August (except 17.8).
From 8pm to 9pm
Studio NABOSO
Price: 900 Kč (six lessons)

Adresa: Školská 12, Praha 1 - Nové město
Tramvajové spojení:
stanice Vodičkova 9,3,24,14
stanice Karlovo nám. 22,10,16,4,18,24,3,14,6
Metro: A - Můstek, B - Karlovo nám., C - Muzeum

Brazilian Party

K.U Bar and Brazil together again:)

During the last summer, the many of you remember, Alo Alo samba dance group and many Brazilians cheered the musicians Tuesdays at KU bar.

It was always a meeting place full of smiles and good humor to start the week well. Tomorrow, June 1th, we Will Be Parties of the Brazilians starting this summer and of course Can not you stay out of it.

The band Mulata B, composed by the Brazilians Flavia Torga, Santiago Ferreira, Dudu and Alex Mitchell Ginsburg, please Will Our ears with the sound of samba and lining. Alo Alo Will Be There samba dance to show a bit of samba and animating the night with color and Joy.

So, here is the command, tomorrow at 10 pm, we meet at KU Bar for Our first night of samba this summer.

K.U Bar: Rytířská 13, Praha 1

Latino Festival Urbano

Hello Friends :))))

I have a good tip for you!

Is coming soon the largest Urban Latino event, the first LATIN FESTIVAL URBANO 2010, which will perform the world-famous names in Latin communities, representing music, dance, DJing and culture.

This festival will be unique to their program and a hint of Latin American culture. At this festival you can join the workshops salsa, merengue ,Reggaeton, Zouk and Samba-Axé, yesssssssss, I will be there making a workshop and do you want to know more? You can win prices in a free dance competition.

So, run to check it out all the program, artists and details for this event.
www.urbanofest.cz

See you there!

Carnival of Cultures - Berlin

Every summer, Berlin celebrates its own unique carnival, called the Carnival of Cultures - more than 1,5 million visitors flock to the district of Kreuzberg to celebrate the multicultural spirit of Germany’s capital.

Berlin is home to more than 450,000 people from around the world and proud to be the most international city in Germany. The Carnival of Cultures pays tribute to Berlin’s ethnic diversity and the peaceful coexistence of its different cultures with this fun summer festival.

Carnival of Cultures - What To Expect:

The Berlin Carnival of Cultures is a four-day open-air festival with exotic food and drinks, concerts, performances, and parties.

The colorful highlight of the festivities is the street parade, where more than 4,500 performers in authentic costumes, elaborately decorated floats, and musicians from over 70 different countries dance through the streets of Berlin.

Soak up the samba rhythms, enjoy Brazilian drummers, Congolese singers, Korean culture groups, artistic larger than life puppets - and a bit of Rio de Janeiro in the streets of the German capital.

Carnival of Cultures - Dates of 2010:
In 2010, the Carnival of Cultures is celebrated from May 21st – 25 th. The street parade takes place on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010.

Olomouc and Brno Sambando:)

Hello All, specially people from Olomouc and Brno, I am coming soon for some hot and intensive samba-axé classes.

This coming Saturday, May 15th in Olomouc at studio orientálních tanců AYSUN and on Sunday, May 23th, I will be in Brno. More info about both workshops on the links below.

Samba-axé workshop with Márcio Slam:
Olomouc
http://www.aysun.cz/seminare.php

Brno
http://www.salsabrno.cz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=2

Chutná or Kutná Hora!

Yesterday, in a kind of celebration for my five years living in Prague, I was talking with some friends and as usual, one of them started to make jokes with my Czech. For some years already my " dáš si něco k pití?" is a good reason for jokes and yesterday I dropped another pearl of my mouth. Instead of saying Kutná Hora, I said Chutná Hora. Of course, the reason for more jokes!

Anyway, speaking in Kutná or Chutná Hora, I remembered that last summer I was only for a day there and I loved. I believe that those who do not know yet the city should take a look.

Since the 1995 City Center Has Been Unesco World Heritage Site, you should visit the Sedlec Ossuary (Kostnice Sedlec) the small Roman Catholic chapel decorated with skeletons of people ,Between 40.000 70.000 people, sounds crazy, and it is, but nice!

Also Can you find there some small aqua park with swimming pools, slides, children screaming, klobasa and pivo.
Those pictures and the video is from my last summer trip in this nice place.

Have fun!

Me inside of the Kutná Hora ball:)

Summer, where are you?

Soooooooooooo, the complaints about the late summer, or at least better weather, already started in whole facebook walls.
Where is the summer?

Of course, I love to complaint but today i will not do that.

Better to believe that soon we gonna be wearing some few clothes in some nice park, pool or garden here in Prague or around.


One friend of mine told me...BE BETTER! or BE 4 Better:)

So, let´s all get some Better mood and start to choose our outfit for this summer. I recommend always the small ones:)

Big hug!

Women

Men

Alo Alo at the back stage:)

PiQue-NiQue Brasileiro

Hi people,

let's get together, talk, play, eat, drink, dance, sing and most importantly have fun.

What? If we gonna have samba there? You kidding me? Of course we gonna have samba!!!!!

When? Sunday 25.4. at 14h.

Where? At Letna Park.

We look forward to seeing you!