The Favela Dance (Dança/Passinho da Favela)
Just wanted to post these videos to show the new dance the kids in the favelas have invented that I find fascinating. You rarely see new dances here that do […]
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Brazil: an Inconvenient History (BBC 2000)
The History of São Paulo (in Portuguese)
For those of you who speak Portuguese (or are learning), here is a trio of videos on the history of the city of São Paulo.
Shadow cities – Robert Neuwirth
I watched this video today, which I thought was very interesting. In Brazil, people underestimate the importance of favelas. They ignore them, pretend they don’t exist, and people who live […]
Jo Soares and Roberto Carlos Ramos
Two Brazilians I greatly admire are Jo Soares and Roberto Carlos Ramos. It was a wonderful surprise for me, then, to watch this interview. This video actually has 5 parts, […]
Metro in Salvador – CQC
One of the funniest, and sadly serious, news reports in Brazil are from the Brazilian clone CQC (it already exists in other countries). The other day, the construction of the […]
