Last Sunday was a busy one at the ICBIE. We opened the event dedicated to Fashion, Theater and Dance with a workshop in re-adapting clothing items from our bazaar (which continues to operate through the 20th of December!). The professional advice given by Sista Katia enchanted the participants with her creations, especially her original and surprising t-shirts. Her models were shown to the public at the opening of the performances of dance and theater. The Street Dance group “Os novatos” presented a lively choreography that confronted contemporary issues affecting Brazilian youth. Right after that, Paco Gomes, an internationally famous choreographer from Salvador, got everyone involved in an open session, an initiation to contemporary dance, followed by a group of his students from the FUNCEB, with a choreography entitled “Orixãs Contemporaneo”. The show kept the audience spellbound.
We were also left speechless with the intense and evocative presentation by our two students, Jamile (percussion) and Gabriela (voice), with their dramatization of “Conscienza Nera,” a text by Fabio Brazza. Then came a performance by the Little Theater and Music Company of the ICBIE, with a scenic representation of texts extracted from “When the Last Dry Leaf Will Fall,” by Marjorie dos Anjos.
Topping off the evening, we were honored by a performance of modern contemporary music with famous musicians from Berlin: the singers Anna Clementi and Hedda Oledki, and the bass player and sound engineer Thomas Stern. The first piece was by the well-known German artist Kurt Schwitters with his Alles im Schwittersland, and the second was a new work by the composer Laurie Schwartz, who is here in Salvador and wrote a piece in homage to Bahia and to Ribeira entitled The Baroness in Bahia with Bolaño.
