*****UPDATE: WE HAVE HAD TO MAKE A LAST MINUTE TEACHER SUBSTITUTION FOR THIS CLASS. Kate Spanos will be teaching frevo instead of Katie Kirkpatrick teaching samba. If you've never danced frevo, it is a fun carnival dance from Recife, and it will be taught for all levels! Learn more here: https://www.educarteinc.org/event/educartes-brazilian-dance-workshop-7/***** This event is free […]
Learn from and jam with Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. André will show and demonstrate each of the essential Brazilian percussion instruments. Participants will learn basic rhythms and the event will finish with a jam session. Also come early for our dance workshop with Zezeh immediately before the percussion ensemble. […]
Learn samba from Zezeh, Brazilian dancer, teacher, choreographer, performer, and healer from São Paulo with a mission to bring more joy to the world through art. Zezeh will demonstrate and teach the basics of samba dance. Also stay for our percussion ensemble workshop with André Coelho immediately following the dance workshop! This is a regularly […]
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 radio and recording industry of Rio de Janeiro. Later legends of Brazilian music like Villalobos and bossa nova great Tom Jobim studied choro and brought […]
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. It will be held at the Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road. Learn from and jam with Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. André will show and demonstrate each of […]
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. It will be held at the Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road. Learn from Brazilian samba dancer Katie Kirkpatrick, who has been performing and teaching in the DC area for over ten years. She […]
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 controversial at the time because Brazilian high society discriminated against African cultural products. About Tom Rohde: Mr. Rohde is a classical guitarist and musicologist who […]
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. It will be held at the Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road. Learn from and jam with Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. André will show and demonstrate each of […]
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. It will be held at the Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road. Learn from and jam with Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. André will show and demonstrate each of […]
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. It will be held at the Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road. Learn from and jam with Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. André will show and demonstrate each of […]
This event is free and open to the public. While primarily intended for adults, everyone is welcome. It will be held at the Old Parish House of College Park at 4711 Knox Road. Learn and jam with Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro. André will show and demonstrate each of the […]
