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Ginga Brasileira Presents The Dances of Brazil
August 6, 2016 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
FreeJoin the Greenwich Library for their summer reading finale – Ginga Brasileira presents The Dances of Brazil. This professional ensemble performs a colorful, crowd-pleasing repertoire of Afro-Brazilian dances that fuse rhythmic music with high-energy gymnastics and martial arts. The ensemble performs Capoeira, a martial art dance form developed in Brazil by 16th-Century slaves that is punctuated by fast footwork, daring leaps, and split second timing. Also featured are Maculele, a stick dance created by African slaves working on Brazilian sugarcane plantations, and Samba, Brazil’s national dance.
For more information, contact Margaret Walsh at 203.622.7940 or at mwalsh@greenwichlibrary.org