Join us for an interactive workshop in Irish dance with dancer and dance scholar Kate Spanos, Ph.D., in partnership with the University of Maryland’s Global Communities Living-Learning Program. Participants will […]
NextLOOK artist residency, The Clarice at the University of Maryland + Joe’s Movement Emporium This new dance and music project examines ainihi (“identity” in Hausa) and alteridade (“otherness” in Portuguese) […]
NextLOOK artist residency, The Clarice at the University of Maryland + Joe’s Movement Emporium This new dance and music project examines ainihi (“identity” in Hausa) and alteridade (“otherness” in Portuguese) […]
NextLOOK artist residency, The Clarice at the University of Maryland + Joe’s Movement Emporium This new dance and music project examines ainihi (“identity” in Hausa) and alteridade (“otherness” in Portuguese) […]
In this lecture, Tom Rohde demonstrates how African dances, such as lundu, were combined with the European polca and schottische to create choro, a uniquely Brazilian rhythm. This mixing was […]
In this lecture, Bryan McCann, PhD, talks about choro’s influence in Brazilian music and society. Choro musicians, who were virtuosic by necessity, became the go-to studio musicians in the early […]
In this lecture, Andy Connell, PhD, discusses the similarities between American jazz and Brazilian choro. He also presents the work of Hermeto Pascoal, one of Brazil's most eccentric, prolific, and […]
Many of the early great composers and performers of the choro genre were Afro-Brazilians, like Patapio Silva and Pixinguinha. In this lecture, Ceylon Mitchell talks about Pixinguinha, the father of […]
Join us before the Marisa Monte concert at Strathmore for a special pre-show panel with women working in the arts and arts administration, featuring Marietta Ulacia (EducArte board member), Amy […]
Join us to celebrate the release of Scott Kettner’s new book, “The Essential Pandeiro Method,” on Saturday, July 2 at Eaton House in downtown DC.
This event will be a lecture/recital on contemporary Brazilian choro presented in Ward Recital Hall by Ph.D. candidate Tom Rohde who will be discussing and performing selections of Contemporary Brazilian choro from the 1950s to the present with a group of talented Brazilian music specialists.
Dancer and scholar Kate Spanos will demonstrate the festival style of Irish dance at the Celtic Festival of Southern Maryland this year.
