Samba

Course with Carlinhos Batá

Samba is a dance and music culture from Brazil that is strongly influenced by African influences. Samba gained its worldwide popularity through the Rio Carnival. Isolation and polycentricity of individual parts of the body, especially the hips, are typical. In his lessons, Carlinhos lays the foundations of Samba de Roda, Samba Duro, Samba de Avenida and Samba de Caboclo, supplemented by other modern or traditional variations. For him, however, the focus is on the feeling that includes the liveliness of the human being with all the associated emotions between joy and sadness.

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.