{"id":150234,"date":"2023-09-07T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=150234"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:47:06","slug":"uccs-to-host-brazilian-dance-artists-in-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=150234","title":{"rendered":"UCCS to host Brazilian dance artists-in-residency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Join artists-in-residency Alessandra Ribeiro, Ph.D., and Bianca L\u00facia Lopes for their first time in the U.S. celebrating and teaching Jongo, an Afro-Brazilian tradition that involves music, dance and singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jongo, also known as caxambu or tambu, is a dance and musical genre rooted in the Afro-diasporic values. It integrates percussion, dance and expression, and was born in the coffee and sugar cane plantations in the Southeast of Brazil. It’s part of a larger group of Afro-Brazilian dances and features drums tuned by fire, and singing in the call-and-response style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This residency aligns with the UCCS mission of providing a multicultural and diverse education for our students, as well as providing opportunities for faculty and community to engage with diverse topics and subjects,” said Rosely Conz<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Dance. “Jongo is a significant cultural tradition, an ancestor of Samba, full of joy and empowerment. Equally important, Jongo comes from slavery and holds space to discuss issues of racism and prejudice.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conz helped bring Jongo and the artists to UCCS after her years of research and visits to Brazil studying Jongo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I am Brazilian, and part of my research is on the Afro-Brazilian dances, including Jongo,” said Conz. “My first contact with the Comunidade Jongo Dito Ribeiro, and their leaders – Alessandra Ribeiro and Bianca Martins Lopes was in 2002, when I was an undergraduate in Brazil. In 2019, already living in the U.S., I went to Brazil and decided to visit the community again, to include Jongo in my research. After some conversations and the generous support of the President Funds for the Humanities, I invited them to share their knowledge with our university.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The residency includes three events that are open to all in the community:<\/p>\n\n\n\n