Posted on May 28, 2015

Assistant Professor of Dance Studies Ana Paula Höfling has recently been published in the new anthology Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing  Arts, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. The book, edited by Severino J. Albuquerque and Kathryn Bishop-Sanchez, is described on Amazon.com as, “the first book to bring together studies of the many and varied manifestations of Brazilian performance in and beyond their country of origin.” Ana Paula’s chapter is entitled, “Staging Capoeira, Samba,  Maculelê, and Candomblé: Viva Bahia’s Choreographies of Afro-Brazilian Folklore for the Global Stage.”

 

 Performing Brazil is available for purchase on Amazon.

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