About this project
Speed, power, precision and live music: these qualities have defined DanceBrazil around the world for 34 years. Last year, for the first time, budget restrictions required us to perform to taped music. This year's season at the Joyce Theater in New York City, April 12-24, features the revival of A Jornada, with a beautiful original score by Brazilian composer Marcelo Zarvos. Help us perform this signature piece as it was originally created. Help us bring back live music to DanceBrazil!
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on April 2, 2011.
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About DanceBrazil
In 1977 DanceBrazil was founded by Jelon Vieira after evolving from grass-roots workshops at the Clark Center for the Arts in NYC. Alvin Ailey joined the board of directors in 1980 and helped focus the objectives of DanceBrazil, emphasizing the company’s ability to speak to a broad North American community. Within a few years, DanceBrazil premiered at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. In 1985, DanceBrazil premiered Orfeo Negro at the Riverside Dance Festival to critical and popular acclaim.
For over thirty years, DanceBrazil has thrilled audiences across the Unites States and throughout the world with its dazzling artistry, which is inspired by the cultural tapestry of Brazil. Whether in the streets or on stage in the most prestigious theaters, the dancers and musicians of DanceBrazil never fail to enthrall audiences with the company’s unique fusion of Afro-Brazilian movement, contemporary dance and Capoeira, the traditional dance/martial arts form that had its origins in Africa and evolved in colonial Brazil as a means of fighting enslavement.
