CURATION
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Name:
Negrizu
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City/Place:
Salvador, Bahia
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Country:
Brazil
Life & Work
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Bio:
Atuando no mercado artístico e cultural há mais de quarenta anos em projetos direcionados a dança afro no Brasil e Exterior. Professor, bailarino, pesquisador, coreógrafo e ator, estudou dança moderna, afro e jazz em cursos de extensão na Escola de Música e Artes Cênicas (Emac-UFBA), participou de oficinas para montagens de espetáculos, se destacando nos workshops de teatro e dança. Participou do Projeto Teatro da Fundação Gregório de Mattos, na montagem do Espetáculo Gregório de Mattos e de Guerras, dirigido por Márcio Meireles. Em sua experiência profissional, integrou a Banda Ilú Batá coordenada pelo professor, e dançarino Clyde Morgan, onde desenvolveu seus estudos sobre a dança afro-moderna, com apresentações em festivais, feiras e ciclos de dança em vários estados do Brasil. Visitou a África passando por países como Costa do Marfim, Togo e Benin em comitiva de pesquisadores incluindo o antropólogo Pierre Verger. Foi destaque no bloco afro Olodum, no tema Núbia Axúm e Etiópia. Dirigiu o Grupo Deuses em Transe em apresentações na França, e Inglaterra sob a coordenação do cantor Gilberto Gil.
Interpretou Exu na minissérie Mãe de Santo da rede Manchete de televisão. Atuou na microssérie Pastores da noite, interpretando Exu, em compadre de Ogum na Rede Globo de televisão. Dançou no espetáculo Retratos da Bahia do Balé do Teatro Castro Alves. Ministrou workshop sobre a dança afro-contemporâneo em cidades brasileiras, Brasília, Goiânia, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paracatu, em Minas Gerais e Joinville, em Santa Catarina, na Europa, em Londres, Inglaterra, Toulouse na França, Helsinque, na Finlândia. Trabalhou por mais de quinze pela Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia como professor em diversos projetos ministrando cursos de dança afro, na capital e no interior da Bahia. Ministrou workshop sobre a expressão corporal para a Escola Olodum no lançamento do Cd, Tambor Cidadão. Atualmente trabalha no Espaço Cultural da Fundação Pierre Verger, na Escola e no Bloco Afro Olodum como bailarino, professor e coreógrafo de dança afro.
English:
Acting in the artistic and cultural market for over forty years in projects focused on Afro dance in Brazil and abroad. Professor, dancer, researcher, choreographer, and actor, he studied modern, Afro, and jazz dance in extension courses at the School of Music and Performing Arts (Emac-UFBA), participated in workshops for the staging of shows, excelling in theater and dance workshops. He participated in the Theater Project of the Gregório de Mattos Foundation, in the staging of the Gregório de Mattos and Guerras Show, directed by Márcio Meireles. In his professional experience, he integrated the Ilú Batá Band coordinated by the professor and dancer Clyde Morgan, where he developed his studies on Afro-modern dance, with performances at festivals, fairs, and dance cycles in various states of Brazil. He visited Africa passing through countries such as Ivory Coast, Togo, and Benin in a delegation of researchers including the anthropologist Pierre Verger. He was featured in the Afro block Olodum, in the theme Núbia Axum and Ethiopia. He directed the Deuses em Transe Group in presentations in France and England under the coordination of the singer Gilberto Gil.
He played Exu in the miniseries Mãe de Santo on the Manchete television network. He acted in the microseries Pastores da Noite, playing Exu, as a friend of Ogum on Rede Globo television. He danced in the show Retratos da Bahia of the Castro Alves Theater Ballet. He conducted workshops on Afro-contemporary dance in Brazilian cities, Brasília, Goiânia, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paracatu, in Minas Gerais, and Joinville, in Santa Catarina, in Europe, in London, England, Toulouse in France, Helsinki, Finland. He worked for more than fifteen years for the Cultural Foundation of the State of Bahia as a teacher in various projects teaching Afro dance courses, in the capital and in the interior of Bahia. He conducted a workshop on body expression for the Olodum School at the launch of the CD, Tambor Cidadão. He currently works at the Cultural Space of the Pierre Verger Foundation, at the School, and in the Olodum Afro Block as a dancer, teacher, and Afro dance choreographer.
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"In a small world great things are possible." Mathematics in the Matrix positions creators worldwide within reach of each other, step by step by step...
In this matrix it's not which pill you take, it's which pathways you take, pathways originating in the sprawling cultural matrix of Brazil: Indigenous, African, Sephardic and then Ashkenazic, European, Asian... Ground Zero is the Recôncavo, delineated by the Bay of All Saints, earthly center of gravity for the disembarkation of enslaved human beings — and the sublimity they created — presided over by the ineffable Black Rome of Brazil: Salvador da Bahia.
("Black Rome" is an appellation per Caetano Veloso, son of the Recôncavo, via Mãe Aninha of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá.)
Caetano Veloso
THE MATRIX MISSION: What do Jimmy Cliff, Jimmy Page, and Dionne Warwick all have in common? They've all lived in Bahia and Dionne is moving back (visitors include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spike Lee, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, David Byrne and Sting, among others). But so have lived and now live untold numbers of Bahian creators whose magisterial work has never had the major media means to reach beyond limited surroundings. In order that the creators of Bahia might have global reach, ALL creators must have global reach.
QED: 'mātriks / "source" / from "mater", Latin for "mother". We're real mothers for ya! (thank you Johnny "Guitar" Watson)
Susan Rogers
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze: manager, Kamasi Washington
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad: Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd-Webber: UK's premier cellist; brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals: World's premier klezmer violinist
Developed here in the Historic Center of Salvador da Bahia ↓ .
Bule Bule (Assis Valente)
"♫ The time has come for these bronzed people to show their value..."
Recommend somebody and you will appear on that person's page. Somebody recommends you and they will appear on your page.
Both pulled by the inexorable mathematical gravity of the small world phenomenon to within range of everybody inside.
And by logical extension, to within range of all humanity outside as well.
8 billion human beings tend to within six degrees of connection to each other.
In a small world great things are possible.
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay (they paid).
I built the Matrix below (I'm below left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian. If you create too, join them in the Matrix.
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