Ep10w/ Fábio Mariano: Beauty of Ballet, Collage Dance Collective, Racism in Brazil

Hey guys! This episode features a conversation between me and my dear friend Fábio Mariano! He is a ballet dancer for Collage Dance Collective, an organization in Memphis that has brought ballet to people of color, vastly changing the culture around ballet. Mariano is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lived in Memphis for 6 years. Both he and I talk about ballet, dance & gender, racism in Brazil, parallels of Afro Brazilian culture and African American culture, and the recent Lula election. It was great to have him on the show! Obrigado!

This is the last interview episode of season 1! As always thank you all for your support!

Sources:

• https://collagedance.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberto_Freyre
• Graham, Richard. The Idea of Race in Latin America: 1870-1940. Univ. of Texas Press, 2006. 
• https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/racial-discrimination-and-miscegenation-experience-brazil
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva-Wikipedia
• https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82-21520/
• European Immigration to Brazil