La Danza Poetica 008 Creative Resistance – podcast now up on Radio Groovalizacion. Poets of revolution, voices of the Arab political consciousness. Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran … links here soon.
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This month’s Groovalizacion dance takes us into the heart of mother Africa. Voices beating the skin of the drum, calling it jazz, hip hop and afrobeat rhythms, poets calling from the heart of the heart … Poets, hip hop artists and musicians from South Africa, Cape Town, Senegal, Burundi, Cameroon, Uganda, Nigeria, The Congo, via Canada, the US and the UK…
The sixth dance for Radio Groovalizacion covers a bit of ground in the great northern american landmass we know as Canada. Français Canadien, Québécois, Acadien, English, Inuit, Huron, Algonquin, Métis, Cree … the French and English heritage, the African heritage, the Inuit and the First Nations heritage – this is the rich turmoil of Canadian cultures.
Please take some moments to watch this. This is more than spoken word ‘artistry’ – though there is such artistry in this, such command of the art of storytelling by this Canadian poet and such incredible animated emotion by many different artists. But this is more than art. This is the best example of why storytelling is one of our most necessary crafts, as well as one of our most powerful healers…
The February podcast of La Danza Poetica focuses on Brazil, em Português. New spoken word from the Ponte Aérea Elétrica project (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro), Rio hip hop, São Paulo poetas, Afro-Brazilian rhythms, the folk/song traditions of the Nordeste, and the avant-pop-mangue-folk Tropicália of now!
Via Poejazzi – This video piece has such a beautiful mood, shaping in sound and voice and image the deep pain of longing – the longing that bubbles over with new love, and the longing that stews with love lost. Raymond Antrobus can speak from the most painful of shared memories and from there, shine the poet’s light onto the joys of existence. That is more than a skill or a talent – it’s a sense – it’s what makes this stuff magic.
