Comments on: Videos: Forró Music and Dance http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/25/videos-forro-music-and-dance/ (noun, feminine): capoeira player who is skilled, experienced, intelligent, powerful, dangerous, and not to be underestimated Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:26:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Leão http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/25/videos-forro-music-and-dance/#comment-1542 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:11:31 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=160#comment-1542 And do you know? I just learned the basic basic steps for forró last week! I knew I had seen some of the videos my friends and I saw on your site first, and then we finally found the song we were looking for… “Deixa Acontecer” by Grupo Revelacão. Good song, just thought I’d mention.

]]> By: Joaninha http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/25/videos-forro-music-and-dance/#comment-784 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:33:28 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=160#comment-784 Hi Seng Kang, thank you, and I’m so sorry your comment didn’t show up earlier and that I’m just responding now; somehow it was marked as spam and automatically withheld from the site! Although as you might’ve seen by now in my response to Cigana, I will definitely do frevo at some point in the future. :D

]]> By: Joaninha http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/25/videos-forro-music-and-dance/#comment-768 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:04:03 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=160#comment-768 Hey Cigana! I don’t actually know that much about frevo myself, beyond that it’s the “umbrella dance”. XD I actually promised another friend a while ago I’d do xaxado for them, but know that frevo is definitely on my list!

]]> By: Joaninha http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/25/videos-forro-music-and-dance/#comment-767 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:02:06 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=160#comment-767 Thanks, Mariposa! Haha yeah, from reading articles and watching different videos, I got the feeling there are an endless number of ways to do forro…hey, kind of like capoeira ;) But what exactly do you mean by the ginga move in forro?

]]> By: cigana http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/25/videos-forro-music-and-dance/#comment-765 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:02:37 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=160#comment-765 Joaninha, it would be really great to see an article on frevo. This is danced mostly in Pernambuco (I think) and is probably the most intense danca brasileira. After just 30 seconds of frevo you feel a heart attack coming on because it is so physically demanding. It is really fun to dance and amazing to watch, but I know nothing about its origins.

]]> By: Mariposa http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/25/videos-forro-music-and-dance/#comment-760 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:47:41 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=160#comment-760 Nnnicceee!!!
Although I danced forro at a Brazilian party in Toronto and we danced a little differently. I was very amused to learn the ginga move in forro – and it’s very nice!!!! :)
Awsome article, Joaninha!!!

]]> By: sengkang http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/25/videos-forro-music-and-dance/#comment-758 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:55:50 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=160#comment-758 Hi there,

Love this series! Any chance you’ll profile frevo at some point? I witnessed it at my first batizado and was mesmerized. I have a clip I can upload too if you need some more video of it!

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