Salsa or salsa? Well, samba! Yesterday I had one girl who visits my blog daily and she was having this dilemma: Should I go tonight for salsa or salsa? I told her that if we have more samba parties this menu could be richer. So, here I am to give you some choices.
28 of June Roxy will celebrate a Brazilian party with Tam-Tam Orchestra, drummers Tam-Tam Batucada and the group Capoeira Mandela.Tam-Tam Orchestra combine dominant rhythm with harmonic instruments and of course singing. Tam-Tam Batucada is purely Batucada, rhythmic performance. Brazilian samba, island rhythms of Cuba and West Africa complements the night.The event will take place at Roxy from 10:00 pm on June 28th.
Alo Alo and Batukatum once again will perform together, this time will be at Free-D-Bar.
Soundsystem Live Session
DJs Nicholas, romaria Live: Flavia Torga with Batukatum and Alo ALo.
Flavia Torga is a Brazilian percussionist who founded the group Batukatum in Prague, the biggest Carnival spirit Band around here. Batukatum play a wide range of Brazilian rhythms, including samba. Drummer is accompanied by Thyago Ferreira, singing and playing the Cavaquinho. To be part of this atmosphere, the Brazilian Samba Dance Group ALO ALO with the choreographer and teacher Márcio Slam, will join the event to make things more colourful and unforgettable.
When? 26.06.2009
Where? Mlekojedy
How to get there and more details, please have a look in this web page: www.free-d-bar.cz
A Brazilian contemporary dancer will be performing in Prague in few days. With Choreography of Thomas Lebrun and directed by Giselle Tápias, Flávia Tápias is an unusually gifted Brazilian dancer - a genuine natural talent. In her solos, she does not rely on her characteristic movement expression; she also combines it with video screening and a rich variety of sounds.
The performance will take place at Ponec Theatre on June 24thand 25th at 8 pm. Flávia will show us the piece On ne se connait pas encore mai and will be shown another 2 pieces in the same night, a group from Cyprus and another from Spain.
Well, for sure I will be there, it is not everyday that a Brazilian contemporary dancer are performing in Prague. I do not know her, do not know if she lives in Brazil and from where she got her dance education and experiences, I just see on the pictures that she has Carmen Miranda as inspiration, at least in the way she is dressing. Do you know who Carmen Miranda was? NO? Howwwwwwww is possible.... so, Let you know soon about her.
Well, like always my musicians friends let me know about their concert only at the last moment,so was not different today with André. So,the concert will take place at BAR 1.
Address: DUKELSKYCH HRDNU, 46. Praha 7. ( In front Park hotel ) Date : 14th of may ( Thursday )
Last Tuesday, just after my lessons, I have been to K.U Bar for one performance of Alo Alo with the Brazilian singer André Sah. Was quite funny, some of my students came to show up and like always during the performances days, I met a lot of People which I cannot remember their names. Well,or the people has to forgive me for that or I should write it down with the pictures of the people under...Anyway...That day, one friend of mine in face book, by coincidence, wrote me to ask where she could go to dance and/or listen samba outside the lessons, I told her about the evening in K.U Bar and she came... actually she danced quite good sambaJ
The thing is, how to make the owners of bars and clubs to play more samba music, and better than that, start to promote more parties with Brazilian and Carnival stuff? Well, the answer is quite easy, people like Eva, Daša , Irena and the other people was there in a Tuesday evening, should really go to support not only the samba movement or me or Alo Alo or Andre Sah... but should go to support parties they like to go. Samba there is no yet the same fever like salsa has, first of all, because Samba comes from one country only, and salsa from many different places, and second, the Brazilian community is not that big here in Prague as in London, Paris, Berlin, US... places whit big big big Brazilian events very often.
So, my message for you today is: Keep helping the samba movement grow up in Prague going to parties even to say hello if you cannot stay longer and dance until finish. And behind of this message about helping samba movement has another one that it is: Help and support everything you believe and make you happy!
