Tanzende Frauen

Brazilian Dance Styles

Samba is a Brazilian dance and music culture that is strongly informed by African influence. Historically tightly connected to slavery, occupation and migration, today’s Samba oscillates between extremes: Practised in many regional forms in Brazil, it was popularized, for example, by Rio’s Carnival, and its inclusion as competitive dance into the World Dance Program during the 1960s is also part of its history. Typical stylistic elements in samba dancing are isolation and the polycentrism of individual body parts, especially the hip. The samba, as a couple’s dance, as a solo dance or in a group (as danced at tanzhaus nrw) has a strong pull and is pure joy of life, as is another Brazilian cultural technique: Capoeira. Capoeira is a martial arts dance with roots that stretch deep into Brazil’s colonial era, too. Central elements are the fight, the music and the “roda” (Portuguese for “circle”), practised by rules and rituals that are orally traded. At this time, tanzhaus nrw only offers Capoeira exclusively for youths.

Instructors

Portrait photo: Carlinhos Batá

Carlinhos Batá

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Carlinhos Batá, born ins São Paulo, started his dancing career with the company Batá Koto. Since 1999, he lives and works as an artist in Europe. Together with Marcelo Nascimento and Sergio Saira, he brought the much vaunted Brazilian way of life and the sambo boom to Düsseldorf. In 2009, he finished his dance pedagogy training at the German Institute for Dance Pedagogy (DIT) and also completed a degree in dance culture V.I.E.W. (mediation, staging, evaluation and knowledge) at the Sporthochschule Cologne. Since then, he has been involved in numerous projects at schools and cultural institutions conceptually as well as in the implementation with a focus on inclusion. Carlinhos teaching is in high demand, as his classes are characterized by his great dedication for the dance and music of Brazil.

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Regina Rodrigues

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Regina Rodrigues kam mit Mitte zwanzig zum Studium nach Düsseldorf – und damit begann auch ihre besondere Verbindung zu Brasilien. Über die Capoeira entdeckte sie die brasilianische Kultur, Musik und Lebensart. Zehn Jahre später verliebte sie sich in den Forró. Sie lernte bei Rudolfo Batista in Köln sowie auf zahlreichen Festivals in ganz Europa. Reisen nach Brasilien vertieften ihr Verständnis der portugiesischen Sprache und der Vielfalt brasilianischer Rhythmen und Tanztraditionen. Von 2013 bis 2018 unterrichtete Regina Forró in Düsseldorf und engagierte sich darüber hinaus für den Aufbau und die Förderung der lokalen Forró-Szene. Sie organisierte Tanzveranstaltungen und kulturelle Events, die Menschen durch Musik und Tanz zusammenbrachten. Regina vermittelt nicht nur Tanzschritte, sondern vor allem die Freude, Verbundenheit und Lebensenergie, die den Forró ausmachen.