‘Arts’ Archives
October Art Happenings in LA
October is set to be the most happening art month in Los Angeles, with two massive events across the LA county: the World Festival of Sacred Music, which opens with the free and amazing Honoring the Sea on October 1st on Santa Monica Beach; and Pacific Standard Time, a [Read More]
Flashback to my Journey into Art
Ten years ago I embarked on a year-long travel around Asia, Australia, and Europe, visiting and meeting up with friends and family in various cities and spending a few months alone in France. The mostly solitary period in Europe was an immersion of art of every kind, a [Read More]
Mardi Gras in Los Angeles
It was Big Fatty, or Fat Tuesday, last week – the final day of Carnaval celebrations around the world. I can’t resist posting this video footage I shot at a Fat Tuesday celebration thrown by my friends from Swing Brazil Tribe at Zanzibar in Santa Monica, CA. [Read More]
Samba, samba and more samba!
I just re-uploaded three videos I took of Samba dancing in Bahia, Brazil, the birth place of Samba. Brazil’s national social dance, Samba in Bahia is usually in the form of Samba de Roda (circle dance), with everyone forming the circle taking turn dancing inside the [Read More]
Celebrating the best of Rio de Janeiro in Southern California
Every third Sunday of September, SambaLá Samba School presents a Brazil-style Street Carnaval party on the streets of downtown Long Beach. The Carnaval has grown to be the second-largest all-Brazilian event in the US, only behind New York’s Brazilian Day. It’s [Read More]
A Venice Life
What is it about Venice, California, that draws in the artistic, the spiritual, the bohemians, and the dreamers? Perhaps it’s the ocean, or the sunshine. More likely, it’s the palpable collective intellectual and creative energy of the community. Always bohemian at the [Read More]
SAN FRANCISCO ETHNIC DANCE FESTIVAL
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. ~Agnes de Mille A highlight from a recent trip to San Francisco is attending one of my favorite events in the city: the Ethnic Dance Festival. San Francisco is blessed with a bustling [Read More]
Yemanja Dance
Swing Brazil Tribe and Viver Brasil dance company of Los Angeles, CA dancing the movement of Yemanja, the Afro Brazilian Goddess of the Sea. Part of Honoring the Sea, closing ceremony of 2008 World Festival of Sacred Music. Location: Santa Monica, CA. Bookmark on Delicious [Read More]
Honoring the Sea 2008
Honoring the Sea Procession in celebration of Yemanja, the Afro-Brazilian Goddess of the Sea, led by Vida Vierra’s Swing Brazil. Part of closing ceremony of 2008 World Festival of Sacred Music. Location: Santa Monica Beach, CA. Bookmark on Delicious Share with [Read More]
Dida: Sound of Salvador, Bahia
Dida is an all-female percussion band that plays samba reggae, a music genre from Bahia, Brazil. Filmed in August ’08 on the street outside Dida School of Music, a non-profit organization that teaches music and dance for free to poor women and children of Salvador. [Read More]
