The fact that the ICBIE offers the best Italian instruction in Salvador is no longer a secret. So when a group of fifty-one dancers were recruited by the Italian company Fitness Mare to travel to Italy next summer (where they will perform at various Club Med tourist centers), we were asked to arrange a ten week long cycle of beginning Italian lessons. Seeing as the pay was good, Marlene accepted the challenge, even though it entails traveling to the other side of the city, to Boca do Rio, which is along the eastern seafront (“Orla de Salvador“). Lessons are every Monday and Thursday, from 11 AM to 1 PM.
With Julio and Annie as her assistants, Marlene is using Italian songs to help with her teaching, and the dancers have really taken to some pieces by Tiziano Ferro and Irene Grandi, improvising the choreography and cavorting around in the big concrete hall where the lessons are held.
The fun and games will continue through April and early May.
Many more pictures are posted in this album of the ICBIE Photo Gallery.
