Langston Hughes, poet afroamericano and illustrious representative of the literary movement called “Harlem Renaissance”, charismatic figure of American literature and leftist political activist, has perfected a literary genre called “jazz poetry” that reflects the rhythms, vitality and the frenzy of jazz instrumental. His poems, which often reflect the feelings and content and sometimes the structure metric the blues speak of life, activities, problems and dreams of the black community of Harlem. Read the rest of this entry »

A series of initiatives including an exhibition of images linked to the world of jazz, an inaugural concert that explores the roots of African American music and an evening devoted to poetry jazz in a blend of words and music.
Jazz and languages therefore wish to approach this genre in a multimedia exploring various means of expression across the barriers between academic and popular culture, between “genders” and above all trying to do culture and why not, to teach engaged, involving enjoying the public . The jazz in this sense is an ideal vehicle because traditionally requires a direct link between musicians and listeners. Read the rest of this entry »

The DanzaMovimentoTerapia is a specific framework geared to promote the integration physical, emotional, relational, emotional and psychosocial of the individual, to improve their quality of life. The specificity of Dance Movement Therapy-refers to the language of bodily movement and dance, joined the creative process, become the main method of assessment and Read the rest of this entry »

BIODANZA
Definition:
BIOS = LIFE
DANCING = MOVING INTEGRATED
BIODANZA = DANCE OF LIFE
The biodanza is a path of growth through music and movement allows everyone to discover the pleasure of their naturalness, of their talents and their best human qualities. Each exercise has been designed with the aim of making us regain our natural capacity to integrate riscoprirci, soft, loose and in constant communication with their lives. Read the rest of this entry »

The creator of the system is Biodanza Rolando Toro Araneda psychologist and anthropologist born in Chile in 1924, held the chair of Psychology of Art and Aesthetics of dell ‘Espressione at the Pontifical University of Chile.
It ‘been Professor of the Centre for Studies of Anthropology Medical School of Medicine at the University of Chile. Rolando Toro draws its inspiration from sources Anthropological and ethological. Read the rest of this entry »

At twelve years went to study in Madrid in order to learn to dance. He entered to be part of the Spanish National Ballet and at the age of fifteen years had already become the first dancer. Thus began to go on tour worldwide performing well at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and the Kremlin’s Congress Palace in Moscow. After he left the National Ballet and joined a gala consists of great artists including Maya Plisetskaya, Silvie Guillen, Pere Schauffus, Marie-Claude Pietragalla and Julio Bocca.
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Very different is the situation now stands capoerista and capoeira. We need to get to 1930, when the capoeira was liberalised and joined the national folklore. Today it’s easy to meet athletes-disciples of all ages and social classes, there are also women who practice. The capoerista is no longer a provocateur but as a sport. The capoerista must be calm, quiet and calculators, capoeira requires for its part a certain mysticism, loyalty with peers in the game and absolute obedience to the rules.
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When arrived in Brazil in 1500, the Portuguese had not the slightest idea of how vast the territory discovered. The plantations were enormous and the need for labour was a fact. For this reason, they decided the import and schiavizzazione of African blacks. Two were large groups of African tribes arrived in Brazil; strain identified for language they are: Sudanese (Gulf of Guinea) and bantu (Congo, Angola and Mozambique).
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The conquest of the colonies led many citizens of the old continent to frequent travel. Even Oscar Wilde succeeded ‘to resist the allure of belly dance, and in 1883 represented a “Salome” which danced a dance of the seven veils in which the public, given the boldness of the show, perhaps it was not prepared but to which the rest’ anything but indifferent.
At the same time also the United States accorgevano of this new trend thanks to the performances of dancer, probably of Algerian origin, “Little Egypt” that came to play World Fair in Chicago. Even in that case was touched upon the scandal but the public remained hypnotized by its exotic movements and from that moment on film also propose increasing the performance of belly dancers during the first silent films shot in Hollywood.
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The dancers, who move on tiptoe, offer a very intense during the performance while maintaining a posture soft but with control of muscles. Indossano often a mermaid skirts, narrow hips from which to extend their knees on the bottom.
There are also two lesser-used variants, a popular, though born in an urban context and a “folk”, typical of villages.
This variety shows the importance of dance in Egypt: Arab dance in society, which is to mould old, is very deeply felt that in the West and is very common even in private homes, not counting being experienced as real collective phenomenon to celebrate festivals and weddings.
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