upcoming

All Tribes Dance Films & Beats Gathering

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Butter Music Brazil presents All Tribes Dance; films and beats gathering featuring Footsteps in Africa, A Nomadic Journey  (2006), short films from Post Modern Times and Rara Avis Thursday, July 1, at Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St in Arcata. Doors open at 9:15 p.m. Films start at 9:45 p.m. Cost is $15, $10 advanced from our website arcatatheatre.com and is 21 and over.

PRESS: For more info or to interview please contact Marjo: marjoribeiro@gmail.com or/and Alegria alegria.sita@gmail.com
All Tribes Dance: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=317064377849&ref=ss
http://www.myspace.com/alltribesdance

All Tribes Dance invites everyone for a full inspiring night at Arcata Lounge Theater. Once a month, a sequence of music, independent films and a dance gathering, for collective awareness. The night begins with a smooth downtempo-chillout set by DJ Marjo Lak, playing the movie’s soundtracks and other sonorities to relax and set the atmosphere. In the sequence comes the screening of independent films – short movies + 1 medium/long-feature movies - totalizing around 2 hours of screenings never before exhibited in Humboldt County.

After the screening the celebration begins: All Tribes Dance invites everybody for a modern tribal experience, striking up the dance floor with a long set of contemporary electronic sounds – Minimal, Electro, Techhouse Music. Synths, basslines, loops, a range of high, low and distorted frequencies, grooves and every element which compose the essence of electronic sounds brings a delightful dance healing experience. Much more than a screening’s party, the great idea behind the project is to bring social and ecological awareness to our community, besides raising funds for a great cause.

This project is the call for the urgent changes we need, in shape of an inspiring proposal, stimulating us all to recreate a new way of life that will bring the planet back into balance before it’s too late. In a world which is increasingly more distant and disconnected to the real values of life, All tribes dance gathering is a shout to bring us back to our true nature. All the profit gained with this project will be donated to the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth, all her inhabitants, all the children, and for the next seven generations to come.

http://www.raraavismusic.com/index.html
Whole heartedly embraced by dance floors all over the world and Rara Avis  has had a deep impact in the rapidly growing yoga and conscious lifestyle community. Writing music for well known yoga figures such as Shiva Rea, Duncan Wong, Jai Uttal, Max Strom, Sharon & David Life (Jiva Mukti, NYC), Desiree Rumbaugh, Hemalayaa Behl, Ashley Turner, Hala Khouri and many others.  His music bridges the worlds of conscious dance with positive lifestyle making it the ultimate companion soundtrack for the conscious consumer. His styles are always seeking to blend genres as he has an eclectic array of training in blues, jazz, classical, ethnic, electronic, and contemporary.  He has earned a degree in jazz and classical studies from Malaspina University on Vancouver Island and uses his well formed knowledge of music theory, composition and arranging to produce expertly crafted songs with an equal blend of live instrumentation and programmed electronic elements. Healing has long been a part of Rara’s mission with music.  Therefore movement and inspiration that lead toward a greater sense of peace and relaxation are important ingredients that Rara adds into every composition and performance. Rara has toured extensively throughout the US and Canada always bringing a unique element of improvised instrumental performance to the dance and festival floor while at the same time delivering an experience that always leaves people feeling deeply integrated and at home within themselves.

http://www.footstepsafrica.com/film.html
Footsteps in Africa, A Nomadic Journey is a cinematic feature length ethnographic film of 67 minutes. It is an exciting visual narrative, art documentary accompanied by a diverse musical score. Shot in January 2006 as a road trip film in the Sahara desert of Mali, Kiahkeya performers and a renegade camera team lived with the nomadic Tuareg/ Kel Tamashek tribes in remote areas of Mali near Mauritania, and visited Tuareg Festivals. The thematics of “Footsteps in Africa, A Nomadic Journey” question the modern way of life which separates man from nature. The Nomad is aware of how modern man forgets that all of humans material possessions are just a false sense of security and freedom. The Tuareg choose to live in austerity, a truth of extremes that is the poetry of the Tuareg way of life, living in solidarity with the rhythems of nature. Documented in a moment to moment manner the viewer experiences their mode of life, their relation to the earth and their perception on time. The viewer witnesses the Tuaregs mode of life, a survival from the soul. “Footsteps in Africa, A Nomadic Journey” captures the people in their element, investigating their music, their dance, their survival skills, and the rituals that the Tuareg carry within to keep their culture and heritage alive. Combined with commentaries of tribal chiefs, healers and seekers, the film allows the viewer to think and question the modern way of ‘development’, and how it differs from the simplicity of life and its cycles.

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