New Vision Florida/Brazil Festival '97

Events

The New Vision Florida/Brazil Festival is the most comprehensive festival of new work from Brazil and Florida that exists in the U.S. It presents a fresh and innovative face of Brazil's dance, music, film and visual arts - and a look at the work of some of Florida’s most distinctive voices in these disciplines. The 1997 festival attracted people from all corners of South Florida society to a tremendously successful event. Here are the events that took place:

ART INSTALLATIONS

CITY/CIDADE site installations by visual artists Quisqueya Henriquez and José Damasceno
José Damasceno, untitled, Albion Hotel Courtyard, 311 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
Quisqueya Henriquez, The Idea of Fragmentation (Time), RioArte Gallery Sergio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The theme of CITY/CIDADE was the city as observed from the viewpoint of beach communities (Rio/Miami Beach) - affected by light, color, pace, lifestyle, attitudes, social and political issues. This was a Miami Beach/Rio de Janerio Sister City Friendship Alliance Project. CITY/CIDADE was curated by Kate Rawlinson and Agnaldo Farias.
Essay on the work of Quisqueya Henriquez, by Kate Rawlinson.
Essay on the work of José Damasceno, by Agnaldo Farias.

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FILMS FROM BRAZIL

These films were presented:

• Gaijin, "A Brazilian classic" . . a moving and heroic chronicle of Japanese emigration to Brazil at the turn of the century with filmmaker Tizuka Yamasaki in attendance.
• New Gaucho Cinema, a selection of short films, new, bright and bold from the South of Brazil, including Jorge Furtado's brilliant short Ilha Das Flores. Film director Carlos Gerbase in attendance.

Adriana Dutra, director of the Brazilian Film Festival, introduced the films on opening night.

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MUSIC CONCERTS

Collaboration by Alfredo Triff, violin, and Arnaldo Antunes, text and vocals
was presented at the Ambrosino Gallery, 3095 SW 39th Avenue, Miami
Miamian Alfredo Triff, a gifted violinist and composer, worked with Arnaldo Antunes, a concrete poet and star of Brazil's famous rock group Titãs in an evening of cutting edge sound and text.

Baden Powell, legendary Brazilian guitarist - only U. S. appearance
Coral Gables Congregational Church, 3010 De Soto Blvd.
This solo concert featured Baden Powell, the great Brazilian innovator and virtuoso guitarist, known for his Afro-sambas and his work with Vinìcus de Morais, a central figure in the Bossa-Nova movement. Co-produced with the Rhythm Foundation, co-sponsored by the Coral Gables Congregational Church.

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DANCE CONCERTS

Lia Rodrigues Dance Company & Florida choreographers
new dance work by Susana Yamauchi & Florida choreographers
Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach

• FOLIA, choreographed by Lia Rodrigues, from Rio, explores the oral traditions of Brazil's Indian and peasant culture. Lia Rodrigues, an early member of the French Maguy Marin Dance Company, riveted audiences in France in September, 1996, with her company's performance of FOLIA in the Lyon, France International Dance Festival, and repeated this response at this FLA-BRA presentation.
• Susana Yamauchi returned for the third year to work in residence and set her Interactions, a dance/theater piece designed to bring attention to youth in transient and homeless situations on New World School of the Arts gifted dance graduate Tamara Welch and on FIU dance students. This performance began inside the Colony and then took the entire audience outside the theater for the exiting and moving climax.
  ". . . a riveting work which gives the viewer a chilling inside view into the life of youth surviving on the marginal edge."
  
• both nights were shared with Florida choreographers - Gary Lund, Giovanni Luquini and FREEFALL. Gary Lund premiered a challenging new duo, Totemic=Two, for himself and Giovanni Luquini, two of Miami's Titans of dance. Miami-based Brazilian Giovanni Luquini, ". . whose work displays elegant sensuality and edgy theatrical intelligence" (Miami Herald) paired with Lucia Aratanha in his duo Flirt. Lynn Marie Ruse from Tampa and Lynn Brown, aka FREEFALL, of NYC, who are often compared to Canada's Carbone, admit to an artistic fixation on relationships. They performed The Fifth Story of the Fourth Day, from Boccaccio's Decameron.

DANCE DISCUSSION

Books & Books on the Beach, 933 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
Across the Lines, an informal gathering with Brazilian dance critic Helena Katz, area choreographers & dance writers generated quite a lively discussion about the differences in attitude about dance and the arts in Brazil and the U.S.

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OPENING NIGHT PARTY

The party, at the Albion Hotel Courtyard, 311 Lincoln Road, featuring special guest artist Babs Case, in a dance/installation Woods Mix, celebrated the opening of José Damasceno's art installation.

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