Viver Brasil - Sunday July 15 at 8 pm

Sponsored by Savings Bank of Mendocino County

This award winning dance company is firmly rooted in the traditional and contemporary forms and techniques of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The company specializes in bringing to life the beautiful and complex stories of the Afro-Brazilian culture in addition to presenting samba, contemporary Afro-Brazilian dance and carnival. The dances explore fresh ideas about Brazilian ethnic roots, push folkloric dance presentation in novel directions and explore fresh ideas about cultural representation. With high spirited singers and percussionists, and vibrant dancers with colorful costumes and boundless energy, the company presents a jubilant, electric performance.

The LA Weekly describes a performance as “Breathless and colorful…vibrant swirl of motion and music…From the first exhilarating sound of the atabaque drums, a surge of electricity sweeps through the audience, unites us with the irrepressibly energetic troupe of dancers, drummers and singers and keeps us in an elevated, almost combustible state until well past the last sound fades away.”

Pouring for this evening's concert: North Coast Brewing Company
and Claudia Springs Winery