{"id":2714,"date":"2019-07-23T17:16:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2019-07-29T12:29:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:29:43","slug":"study-abroad-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"Study Abroad in Brazil 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cAfrican Influences on Brazilian Culture\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
In June 2019 Simone Ferro, Professor and Chair of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts, led a group of seven dance students on a 23-day trip to Brazil. The class studied African influences on Brazilian culture in three cities: Salvador, Bahia; S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds, Maranh\u00e3o; and Rio de Janeiro. The group also spent a few days in the northeastern Maranh\u00e3o area known as Len\u00e7ois, a huge coastal region of dunes with small inland lakes and lagoons formed by rainfall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The beginning of the 23-day Study Abroad class in Brazil<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This is an introduction to the trip. Successive posts will describe various parts of the visit which include: capoeira, Bahian cuisine, a turtle preserve, and colonial-era churches (Salvador); desert-like dunes and rivers populated by red ibis, huge tracts of mangroves, and white egrets (Len\u00e7ois); performances of the Bumba-meu-boi <\/em>festival and lessons in Northeastern dances (S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds); and samba lessons, and, of course, a visit to the 30-foot Cristo Redentor<\/em> statue and Sugar Loaf mountain (Rio de Janeiro).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Near Salvador in Praia do Forte is a marine preserve dedicated to protecting the breeding grounds of enormous ocean turtles such as the 300 lb. loggerhead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bahaianas in traditional dress help visitors in the old center of Salvador (Pelourinho). We have known Thelma (Bahiana, right) for years, and just met her daughter (Bahiana , left). Simone Ferro, group leader is at the right.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dance students took drumming lessons with Olodum, a samba-reggae group and community organization in the historic center of the city. Here they performed in the street on front of the Olodum headquarters<\/strong>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Capoeira with Mestre Angola in the shadow of the historic church, Nosso Senhor do Bonfim (\u201cOur Lord of the Good End\u201d), Salvador<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Talyene Mel\u00f4nio is choreographer. dance specialist, and administrator in the traditional Baixada group Bumba-meu-boi de Apol\u00f4nio. She taught UWM students movement from her group and a variety of other Northeastern Brazilian dances<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cAfrican Influences on Brazilian Culture\u201d University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In June 2019 Simone Ferro, Professor and Chair of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts, led a group of seven dance students on a 23-day trip to Brazil. The class studied African influences on Brazilian culture in three cities: Salvador, Bahia; S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds, Maranh\u00e3o; … Continue reading Study Abroad in Brazil 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uwm-study-abroad-2019"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}