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06.02.10
Hot 8 Brass Band to be featured in new Spike Lee film for HBO
The Hot 8 Brass Band is featured in the upcoming Spike Lee film entitled "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise."

05.24.10
Viver Brasil wins Lester Horton Dance Award
Viver Brasil recently won the Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in World Dance

07.30.10
Christopher O'Riley
Caramoor International Music Festival
Spanish Courtyard- Katonah, NY

08.05.10
ETHEL
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, NY

08.28.10
Turtle Island Quartet
Waterstage - Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA

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VIVER BRASIL

VIVER BRASIL was founded in Los Angeles in 1997 by Artistic Director Linda Yudin and Co-Director/Choreographer/Musician Luiz Badaró. The award-winning dance company is rooted in the traditional and contemporary forms and techniques of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, and embodies the beautiful and complex stories of the orixá, African sacred energies of Afro-Brazilian culture.  Viver Brasil's innovative stage presentations explore Brazil's racial, social and political history, and are living extensions of the history of Afro-Brazilian dance on stage. The choreography highlights Candomblé ceremony and Bahian carnival. Viver Brasil's repertory reflects artistic excellence, rigorous research and continuous dialogue with living masters in Bahia and younger virtuoso musicians and choreographers. Viver Brasil produces dance concerts, works with community organizations, and sponsors educational programs on campuses from elementary school to colleges and universities.  The company’s unique blend of the traditional and the contemporary has diversified the company’s palette, which speaks to a growing audience in the U.S. and around the world. Viver Brasil highlights the choreography of Rosangela Silvestre, whose signature technique combines orixá dances, gestures and symbols with a contemporary movement vocabulary. The company sponsors annual trips to Bahia and has performed at major venues in L.A., including an annual concert at the Ford Amphitheatre. In 2007, Viver Brasil performed before sold-out houses during a 10 city tour of New Mexico including the National Hispanic Cultural Center and Lensic Auditorium. Viver Brasil received the New England Foundation for the Arts/National Dance Project Award in 2007 and again in 2009 for the new work, Alaafia.. Summer 2009 marked the company’s 7th premiere at the Ford with a performance of Feet on the Ground/Aiyê.