Marina’s Farewell Season: Samba Encounters Workshop with Marina and Vera
About: Join master teachers Vera Passos & Marina Magalhães in a unique exploration of diverse Samba styles and elements, paying honor to Samba’s roots as a form of cultural resistance and radical joy. With live drums! All bodies and levels are welcome!
Bio: Marina Magalhães is a border-crosser, bridge-builder, and dance-maker from Brazil living on unceded Tongva land, currently known as Los Ángeles. Her choreography has been called, “stirring... hypnotic,” by the LA Times and, “riveting... a physical and emotional feat,” by South Africa’s Creative Feel Magazine. Magalhães is a recipient of grant awards from Creative Capital, MAP Fund, Doris Duke Foundation, California Arts Council, as well as the LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Choreography. She has shared her work at renowned theaters like The Ford (LA), Bowery Ballroom (NYC), CounterPulse (San Francisco), Centre Chorégraphique National (Montpellier), The Wits Theatre (Johannesburg), and nightclubs and living rooms around the world. As a performing artist, she has worked long-term with CONTRA-TIEMPO and Viver Brasil dance companies, and has been a featured guest artist in works by Bessie Award-winning choreographers Joya Powell, Marjani Forté-Saunders, and the legendary Bill T. Jones. As a community-rooted teacher and cultural organizer, she has led countless pedagogic initiatives dedicated to sharing dance as a tool for racial and healing justice—most notably, the beloved former Dancing Diaspora platform. As an academic-interventionist, she has taught at UCLA, UC Riverside, Cal Poly Pomona, and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Scripps College. Magalhães holds a B.A. degree from UCLA’s Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance and an M.F.A. degree in Dance from University of the Arts.
Accessibility Note: All events will take place at the (NEW!) Pieter Performance Space located at 2701 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90031.
Free parking is available directly behind our building at 2412 Workman Street. There are two additional free city lots south of Broadway on Workman Street. There is also ample metered parking in the neighborhood.
The space is located on the 2nd floor with one flight of stairs directly up from the entrance. Elevator access is available; please email pieterpasd@gmail.com prior to event if you will be using it. The elevator is spacious enough for any mobility device and the 2nd floor space is free of any steps or mobility barriers. There are no automated doors in the building.
There are two all-gender restrooms with three private stalls and a urinal. Each restroom has one stall accessible for mobility device users.