Bio:
Vânia Oliveira... filha de Ana Maria, José Bonfim, Mãe Elza, Logunedé, Osun e do Ilê Axé Luandeí. Irmã de Paty, Aspri, Jojó, Luís e Joca. Mãe de Filipe e avó de Akin...
Rainha do Bloco Afro Malê Debalê dos anos 2000 e 2006; Princesa do Bloco Afro Ilê Aiyê dos anos 2001 e 2014...
Licenciada , Especialista e Mestra em Dança, pela Escola de Dança da UFBA; Especialista em História Social e Cultura Afro brasileira pela UNIME; Doutoranda do Programa Multidisciplinar e Multi-institucional em Difusão do Conhecimento da UFBA...
Professora Assistente em dedicação exclusiva do Curso de Licenciatura em Dança da Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia – UESB; Coordenadora do Colegiado de Dança da UESB; Coordenadora do Subprojeto de Artes do Programa de Iniciação a Docência, DANTE – PIBID da UESB, onde atuou do ano de 2014 a 2016 como Coordenadora de Cultura desta instituição...
É pesquisadora do Núcleo de Processos Educacionais em Dança - NUPED, que integra o GESTAR - Grupo de Estudos emTerritorialidades da Infância e Formação Docente, da Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia – UESB/Jequié; Pesquisadora do ÁGORA da Escola de Dança da UFBA; Pesquisadora Associada da ANDA (Associação Nacional de Dança)...
Fundadora e coordenadora do GEDAN – Grupo de Estudos em Danças Negras-referenciadas, da UESB/Jequié-Ba...
Fundadora do “Dançando Nossas Matrizes”, coletivo de professoras e professores, pesquisadoras e pesquisadores de Danças de Matrizes Africanas...
Atuou como Professora das Escolas de Danças da UFBA, da FUNCEB e como coordenadora da Escola de Dança da FUNCEB...
Integra o quadro de reservas da Polícia Militar do Estado da Bahia, onde prestou serviços por 16 anos, atuando em policiamento ostensivo e no Grupo de Teatro da PMBA. Grupo que foi fundadora, produtora, intérprete, coreógrafa e gestora.
English:
Vânia Oliveira... daughter of Ana Maria, José Bonfim, Mother Elza, Logunedé, Osun, and Ilê Axé Luandeí. Sister of Paty, Aspri, Jojó, Luís, and Joca. Mother of Filipe and grandmother of Akin...
Queen of the Afro Bloc Malê Debalê in the years 2000 and 2006; Princess of the Afro Bloc Ilê Aiyê in the years 2001 and 2014...
Bachelor's, Specialist, and Master's degrees in Dance from the School of Dance at UFBA; Specialist in Afro-Brazilian Social History and Culture from UNIME; Ph.D. candidate in the Multidisciplinary and Multi-institutional Program in Knowledge Diffusion at UFBA...
Assistant Professor with exclusive dedication to the Dance Teaching Degree Course at the State University of Southwest Bahia – UESB; Coordinator of the Dance Department at UESB; Coordinator of the Arts Subproject of the Teaching Initiation Program, DANTE – PIBID at UESB, where she worked from 2014 to 2016 as the Culture Coordinator of this institution...
She is a researcher at the Educational Processes in Dance Center - NUPED, which is part of GESTAR - Childhood Territorialities and Teacher Education Study Group, at the State University of Southwest Bahia – UESB/Jequié; Researcher at ÁGORA of the School of Dance at UFBA; Associate Researcher at ANDA (National Dance Association)...
Founder and coordinator of GEDAN – Study Group on Black-referenced Dances, at UESB/Jequié-Ba...
Founder of "Dancing Our Roots", a collective of teachers, researchers, and scholars of African Roots Dances...
She worked as a Teacher at the Dance Schools of UFBA, FUNCEB, and as Coordinator of the Dance School at FUNCEB...
She is part of the reserve force of the Military Police of the State of Bahia, where she served for 16 years, working in ostensive policing and in the Theater Group of PMBA. She was a founder, producer, interpreter, choreographer, and manager of the group.
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"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
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.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below 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. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... 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).