Samba Encounters…”stirring and hypnotic” and “riveting, a physical and emotional feat”…dance experience.
We have a very special dance guest teacher, Marina Magalhães, teaching Samba Encounters.
Come move your body to uplifting and infectious rhythms and movement from Brazil!
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INSTRUCTOR: Marina Magalhães
DATE: Thursday, July 31st
TIME: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
LOCATION: 3603 Portola Drive – Dance Studio
COST: regular dance class rates | $20 Drop In
DESCRIPTION:
Samba Encounters…”stirring and hypnotic” and “riveting, a physical and emotional feat”…dance experience.
We have a very special dance guest teacher, Marina Magalhães, teaching Samba Encounters.
Come move your body to uplifting and infectious rhythms and movement from Brazil!BIO:
Marina Magalhães is a border-crosser, bridge-builder, and dance-maker from Brazil currently living on unceded Uypi land stewarded by the Amah Mutsun people (aka Santa Cruz, CA). Her choreography has been called, “stirring... hypnotic,” by the Los Angeles Times and, “riveting... a physical and emotional feat,” by South Africa’s Creative Feel Magazine. A recipient of grant awards from Creative Capital, MAP Fund, and California Arts Council, Marina has shared her work in theaters like The Ford (LA), Bowery Ballroom (NYC), Centre Chorégraphique National (Montpellier), The Wits Theatre (Johannesburg), and nightclubs and living rooms around the world. She has been shaping and sharing her unique dance pedagogy, rooted in Afro-Latin social dances and somatic exploration, for over twenty years with communities around the world.
A celebrated dance teacher, Marina is known for her inclusive classes that invite all bodies to connect to their personal agency and unearth radical joy. Marina lived on Tongva land (aka Los Ángeles, CA) for 17 years and relocated to Northern California in 2023 to join the UC Santa Cruz Department of Performance, Play & Design, where she is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Dance. Her current Creative Capital project and lifelong practice, "Body as a Crossroads", is dedicated to shaping and sharing cross-cultural practices that honor spirit-body connection and collective liberation. Marina holds a B.A. degree in World Arts & Cultures/Dance from UCLA and an M.F.A. degree in Dance from University of the Arts.