Saturday, February 24th, 2007
electronic carnaval - carnaval eletrônico
well I didn’t expect to spend canarval in this way, but it was great! 5 days in this
beautiful location in São Paulo state: dancing, juggling, poi-ing, hula-ing, staff-ing, swimming!, bouncing, laughing, getting covered in paint and glitter! drinking, chatting, meeting lovely juggly folk! Yes, twas good.
The Shows: We did a few collaborative performances with troupes from SP state, which were particularly enjoyable mostly because of the vibe of the performers. It makes such a difference when you have people who really love to perform, and are on the same wavelength. As for the shows themselves… well, the public really enjoyed them, 
and we had a great time doing them…. but for me they were really lacking in cohesion and choreography.
There was some choreo, which went down really well, but for the most part it was just free-style spinning and kinda chaotic. However, the costumes and make-up were well done… (NB. the pics are of the make-up after the shows!!)
Fire Troupe and Cultural Observations: it’s interesting, in Europe it’s the other way round - the troupes normally have the choreo down, but are lacking in aesthetics, and here the performers look brilliant… but haven’t quite sorted the show out yet!! Still, it’s promising… there was a lot of enthusiasm for the little bits of choreo we did 
have, and certainly creativity and desire to create more! hoorah!
There’s certainly no lack in talent out this way either, just less people who do it I think. The staff workshop I attended was great, and not just for beginners; I learnt loads of new doubles throws and combinations I’d not tried before 
Plus got lots of lovely ideas from Isadora (super-amazing-bouncy-beautiful person) to dance more with hoop!
hooray! So now a trip to São Paulo is on the cards next month… I’m hoping to talk with the dude who made the troupe’s costumes too, and get a few things made up for myself 
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então, eu não estava esperando passar o carnaval assim! Mas gostei!! 5 dias nesse lugar liiiindo no estado de São Paulo… dançando, saltando, rindo, sorrindo, fazendo malabares, nadando, sendo besuntado de tinta e porporina!! bebendo, conversando, conhencendo malabaristas muuuuuito gente boa! Sim, foi bom.
As Apresentações: a gente fez umas apresentções com os trupes de SP que foram particularmente legais por causa da atmosfera entre as artistas. Faz uma grande diferença quando têm pessoas na mesma onda quem realmente adoram se apresentar. E as apresentações mesmo… ai o púbico gostou bastante e a gente se divertiu muito… mas para mim faltava muito a coreografia. Havia um pouco coreografia sim e isso foi muito legal e bem recebido pelo público, mais a maioria do show era só freestyle bagunça. Porém, os figurinos e maciagem eram fantasticos…
Observações Culturais e dos Trupes de Malabaristas de Fogo: é interessante, na europa é ao contrario: os trupes geralmente tem coregrafia legal, mas faltem de estético… e aqui as artistas se parecem marvilhosas, mas ainda não têm prestado bastante atenção na coreografia!! Mesmo assim, é muito prometedor… teve muito entusiamso pra a coreografia que sim tivemos, e com certeza tem muito creatividade e o desejo a criar mais!
E certamente não falta de talento aqui 
também. É só que tem menos pessoas quem fazem isso eu acho. A oficina de staff que eu experimentei foi otimo, e não só pras iniciantes… eu aprendei muitos lançamentos com 2 bastões e combinações que eu nunca tinha experimentado Além disso
, eu ficei muito encantada e inspirada pela Isadora (pessoa super-linda-alegre-animada-energetica!) que dança com bambolé muuuuuuuito bem!
hooray! Então agora to pretendendo a ir pra São Paulo daqui a um mês… também to querendo falar com o cara quem fez todos os figurinos do equipe para pedir algumas coisas para mi mesmo
nothing to do with my abilities, no!). But yay hooray funfunfun!
still snivelling a bit from my tropical cold (well I can at least try to make it sound exciting!), so I haven’t been training anything physically excerting for a whole week now!! shock gasp horror!! However, being ill, though thoroughly annoying and boring, has allowed me time to juggle and poi lots. Also, spending the vast majority of the day sleeping means slipping in and out of that beautiful state that forms ideas in my head for choreography and the like (hoorah!)
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Unbelievable! In a place that is at least 30° every day, I have managed to get a cold! Rubbish! I hate being ill! I’m all horribly headachey and.. well… rubbish! Can’t train, cant read, can’t teach English, can’t watch TV. boring boring boring.
boing bounce burn…. I’ll write some more when i recover…
The setting was beautiful, surrounded by hill/mountains which became obvious at about 5am with a beautiful sunrise. The music was intoxicating (in a good way), great company, chillout area with a swimming pool, view over the rest of the site and various bands or djs (I liked the didge players best)
aint, on stilts or wahtever at psy-trance parties, that I was really suprised when almost everyone looked like they could have been walking down the boulevard in ipanema!
