Viva Brasil! Samba

Learn samba from Ilheuma Zezeh, Brazilian dancer, teacher, choreographer, performer, and healer from São Paulo, with a mission to bring more joy to the world through art. Ilheuma Zezeh will demonstrate and teach the basics of samba dance.

Where: Creativity Center, 3137 Eastern Ave. Baltimore MD 21224
When: MAR 2 | 3:30-4:30PM
Age Range: 12+
Cost: $15 standard, $12 members
Materials: Dance, character shoes, or bare feet in dance studio (no street shoes permitted)

Instructor Bio
Zezeh is a Washington, DC, based dancer, teacher, choreographer, and professional performer of Brazilian samba, and she is the founder of ZEZEH BRAZIL Dance Troupe. Originally from São Paulo, Zezeh is a former carnival queen of the Unidos do Peruche samba school located in São Paulo. She has taught and danced professionally for over 15 years in a number of countries including Brazil, the United States, and elsewhere. In 2009, she formed ZEZEH BRAZIL, a dance troupe dedicated to bringing the great beauty, diversity, and vibrancy of Brazilian culture to the United States. ZEZEH BRAZIL performs a number of styles of Brazilian dance—from traditional samba de roda movements of Bahia to the Afro-influenced pulsing samba reggae rhythms of Pelourinho, to the intoxicating carnival batucada styles of Rio de Janeiro.