Camará

Screendance documentary, 1996

Camará (16 min B/W 1996) is a screendance documentary inspired by the capoeirista Derald Ferreira and his Grupo de Capoeira Angola Camará in Cambridge MA USA. The screendance presents Capoeira Angola which is expressive movement, martial arts, gymnastics, dance, spirituality, history, song and improvisation. Capoeira Angola evolved as a means of survival and freedom for the African citizens who were held as slaves working on the sugar and tobacco plantations in Brazil beginning in the 16th century. This screendance serves to express a few moments of the spiritual and kinaesthetic life with the assistance of digital highspeed motion cameras and processing systems.

Presented internationally. Awarded the Dance film award at the Dance on Film New York festival and presented at Pompidou Videodance festival, Paris France.

Choreedited by Gretchen Schiller. Supported by the MIT Edgerton Centre, New Media Lab Cambridge, USA and the Banff Centre for the Arts.