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.

Alo Alo at the back stage:)

Alo Alo rehearsal

Some pictures from the rehearsal with my group Alo Alo samba, on the day of the Brazil Fest.
Fotos by Schirley Barta

I am living some quite days I would say... the weather is not something I love it... but I am not complaining!

All I know is that I need SUNba, and tonight I will have my fun with my students dancing samba...

See you soon...

To have a look!

Hey all

I am quite sure you would like to see some pictures from BrazilFest. So, for now the best place to see them is on the web site of the photographer Schirley Barta, where you can find more them 300 pictures from the event, including the performances and the guests... maybe you will be on the pictures hehehehhe

Also you can have a look on the exibition "Besides Samba".

So, the web is: http://www.schirleyamaral.com/

I will come back very soon with some news.

Alo Alo on Magazines

Only 2 days left for Brazil Fest!

When the background gets more attention

Today I am not talking about shows, classes, samba, Brazil or Brazilians...

Today just some pictures to have some fun.

And please, be careful when you want to take some nice picture, look back and around you, just to make sure you will get some attention on the picture!!!

Dancing with Alo Alo at K.U. Bar

Madonna in Prague and Brazilians!

Yesterday, August 13th, I was in Madonna´s concert in Prague, it was amazing! Everybody knows that she has a Brazilian boyfriend, called Jesus Luz, and the concerts she had done this year in Europe, she has been taken always a brazilian flag to the stage, and last night, she took the flag from me. yes, my flag was a little special, what made her look at me and smile always when she pass next to me...I was in the front line, thanks to my 12 hours standing there waiting...anyway, I wrote in my flag PRINCESS LOLA, and Madonna loved, Lola is her daughter!

I was luck to be just next to Jesus, cause Madonna was looking at him all the time and sending kisses... he was next to me all concert, he was friendly and jump to me to take a picture...

At the end of the concert, Madonna back few steps to ask me for the flag... I gave to her and she finished the concert with my Brazilian flag... It was great!