This artwork investigates the Brazilian urban body through performance. Unifying concepts of new rhythmic musics and conceptual dance in performance, this painel uses artistic movements in Brazil that are suffering marginalization by breaking with the established aesthetic. Most of them brings a sensual and provocative body with political proposes. Small sketches with images and projections merging graphism with dancing and live music in order to analyze the potential of digital media. Musical matrix connected to traditional rhythms related countryside evolving everyday gestures, repetition with the gradual introduction of electronic music. Musical matrix connected to traditional rhythms related countryside evolving everyday gestures, repetition with the gradual introduction of electronic music in choreography-performance. We present a kind of critique of the new mass phenomenon in the Internet that becomes a fever and viral spreads music icons and, through performance and videoart, invite the public to think about society reality and the questions around contemporary music, dance and old paradigms.
Tuesday August 18, 2015 9:30am - 11:00am PDT
Room 4945Simon Fraser University (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4, Canada)