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 region-wide collaboration dedicated to the...
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 feast to the eyes and the...
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. I used my Kodak Zi8 videocam and...
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 circle after one another, either solo, in pairs,...
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 a fun-filled party full of lively rhythm and dance that only the Brazilians...
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 core, the creative spirit that permeated Venice in the fifties and sixties...
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 dance scene – the...
