Bienal Internacional de Dan\u00e7a do Cear\u00e1<\/a> is expanding its horizons and lands in Cape Verde on January 19. With 14 Brazilian shows and 11 local ones, the festival will take part of Cear\u00e1\u2019s dance across the ocean.<\/span><\/p>\nThis \u2018branch\u2019 of the Bienal, called Conex\u00e3o Cabo Verde<\/strong>, will have five days of intense shows, workshops, courses, lectures and meetings program. The goal is to create a collaboration network with the country, strengthening collaborative creation processes. \u201cCapeverdians are very present in the city of Fortaleza, at the Universities. We think it\u00b4s an important focus for the Bienal\u201d, states David Linhares, general director of Bienal de Dan\u00e7a do Cear\u00e1. <\/span><\/p>\nEverything started as a dream of creating stronger artistic connections with countries in the Southern hemisphere, without having much interference from the Northern hemisphere. Adding to that, the creation of a direct Fortaleza-Praia (capital of Cape Verde) flight contributed a lot to the transformation of the project into Conex\u00e3o Cabo Verde. After many conversations here in Brazil \u2013 during Bienal 2009 \u2013 and there, the idea took shape. \u201cRaiz di Polon was here in Bienal and we had a first conversation about doing curatorship together. Afterwards I went to Praia and we had a lot of support from the government there. After six months the project was confirmed\u201d, David remembers. <\/span><\/p>\nBesides the importance of the first big meeting, David highlights the fact that this will be the first international trip for many artists. The program gathers popular dance groups whose members never even left Cear\u00e1. Among the participants are Dona Zefinha, CEM \u2013 Centro de Experimenta\u00e7\u00f5es em Movimentos, Cia. Vat\u00e1, Cia. Dita, Grupo Fuzu\u00ea, J. Garcia Cia. de Dan\u00e7a and others. The festival will also have a videodance workshop with Alexandre Veras and one about creation stimulus for movements and creative process with Silvia Moura, besides a lecture about public policies for dance with Leonel Brum. <\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI\u00b4m very optimistic about the result. They love Brazil and the people of Cear\u00e1. And since there are many street presentations, I\u00b4m even afraid of the number of people that we can attract! We have to meet, to start thinking together, that\u00b4s urgent. I believe Conex\u00e3o will be the first step to multiply this\u201d, David celebrates. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bienal Internacional de Dan\u00e7a do Cear\u00e1 atravessa o Oceano Atl\u00e2ntico e desembarca em Cabo Verde na pr\u00f3xima semana. Espet\u00e1culos, oficinas e palestras d\u00e3o in\u00edcio a essa conex\u00e3o. Saiba mais aqui. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":13638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[2850,601,2162],"yoast_head":"\n
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