Brazilian Ballroom Meeting of 1995

This page consists of a re-organization (see also Brazilian Ballroom Dancing - 1995 ), with very few changing and no addings, of my messages of 1995 to the ballroom list. It is part of my main page of Ballroom Dancing and Music.

Anouncement of the Brazilian Ballroom Meeting of 1995

This is maily part of a message I sent to the ballroom list on june 1995.

Brazil is not yet in the international circuit of ballroom dancing. Very few people here know the way you (outside Brazil) ballroom-dance. In the same way, very few people outside Brazil know the way we ballroom-dance. The two forms are very different in some aspects and very similar in others. I am sure that a relationship between them will make both grow. The ballroom dancing school where I am a student here in Rio ("Centro de Danca Jaime Aroxa") is trying to improve this relationship. Jaime Aroxa himself have just come from Europe where he discussed, learned and teached ballroom dancing. Besides, "Centro de Danca Jaime Aroxa" is organizing the "First International Encounter of Ballroom Dancing - The World Dances in Rio", here in Rio de Janeiro by the end of July. It is a pitty I did not knew about this e-mail list a few months early, otherwise I would have announced this meeting by the end of last year and you would have more time to make your arrangements. Anyway, it is still time to come. I take this opportunity the post again the annoucemmet of the meeting giving some more details.


 FIRST INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER OF BALLROOM DANCING

             THE WORLD DANCES IN RIO



             RIO DE JANEIRO - BRAZIL

          FROM 21 TO 29 OF JULY - 1995



   ORGANAZED BY "CENTRO DE DANCA JAIME AROXA"



Programme



   21: Opening session; shown; cocktail

22-23: Workshops on Brazilian and world ballroom dancing;

24-28: Classes on several dances: 

       brazilian ballroom samba, brazilian "samba no pe'",

       lambada,salsa, merengue, tango argentino,

       waltz, jive, rock, slow fox, cha-cha-cha;

   29: Glamourous BALL with orchestra and show.



Confirmed professors:



Luigi Marini (Italy);

Andre Massaro, Daniel Avenel and Cathy Avenel (France);

Mingo e Esther Pugliese (Argentina);,

Caridad Rodrigues (Cuba);

Jaime Aroxa (Brazil);

and the professors of the "Centro de danca Jaime Aroxa"



Registration Fee: US$ 220,00 	

contact: JZ eventos Fax: (55-21) 226-9351 Tel: (55-21) 286-2846



Hotel: 

single room: Us$ 35,00 /day (in Copacabana) 

(other options also avaiable)	

Booking: Tours Brasil Fax: (55-21) 262-5901 

                      Tel: (55-21) 532-2565



Any further details, please, contact: 

JZ eventos.

Fax. (55-21) 226-9351 

Tel: (55-21) 286-2846



If you have difficult in contacting the above FAX, 

send me an e-mail.



Filipe

After the Brazilian Ballroom Meeting of 1995

This is a message is sent to the ballroom list on August 1995.

Dear Ballroom dancers,

The "First International Encounter of Ballroom Dancing" has just finished. It was really great and both parts (brazilians and internationals) learned a lot with each other. In 1996 we shall have a national meeting where, among other things we will see what remained from the first and in 1997 there will be the second internatinal meeting. But what we learned ?

I, myself, learned
i) the slow-fox;
ii) the waltz (slow and Vienense besides, a taste of the "valse musette");
iii) the international jive style, a bit of "rock saute";
iv) salsa (cuban style);
v) Tango (Argentino) - this is already known here.

There was also cha-cha, but I did not have time to do every thing. Of course there was the Brazilian dances, like samba and lambada.

I must start by saying that what I said in my previous messages about ballroom dancing in Brazil was confirmed by this meeting. My memories from my ballroom dancing lessons in U.K. did not fail.

If any of you have the opportunity to talk to the teachers who came here
i) Luigi Marini (Italy);
ii) Andre Massaro, Daniel Avenel and Cathy Avenel (France);
iii) Mingo e Esther Pugliese (Argentina);,
iv) Caridad Rodrigues (Cuba);
do not miss it. Ask them about their impressions. It was confirmed that very few people outside Brazil knew we have a ballroom samba so different from the international style and so different from our own "samba no pe'". Caridad from Cuba was also very impressed with our bolero dancing and that is a compliment !

We, by our side, will incorporate a lot of the internatinal style in our dancing, from slow-fox and jive steps to a new boom of Walz, going through the posture and the elegance. I hope you we learn some of ours, therefore, next time I go there we will have a lot of more fun !

It was a good opportunity to notice that even inside Brazil, samba is danced in many different ways, depending on the region we are. Now that we have others Brazilians writting to the list, you will be able to have more information about brazilian ballroom samba than I could give alone.


Tchau,

 Filipe

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