Isa Soares
Isa Soares | |
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Born | 1953 (age 70–71) Maragogipe, Bahia, Brazil |
Nationality | Brazilian |
Occupation(s) | dancer, activist |
Years active | 1985-present |
Known for | reintroducing African culture through dance to Argentina |
Isa Soares (born 1953) is a Brazilian-born Argentine dancer and activist involved in creating awareness of the African traditions of Argentina and fighting racism against Afro-Argentine peoples. She was one of the pioneers in developing African dance interpretation and instruction in Argentina.
Early life
María Isabel Soares Sousa was born in 1953 in
Career
While continuing her studies, Soares worked as a primary school teacher.[2] She took dance lessons with Wilson Silva, who taught her the basic techniques of African dance and how those spread into the Americas through candombe in Uruguay, samba from Brazil and tap dancing in the United States. In 1982, she married and as was expected of women in her generation, followed her husband to Argentina, giving up her career in 1983.[1][2] The couple settled in Bahía Blanca and Soares returned to her studies through the National Technical Education Council (Spanish: Consejo Nacional de Educación Técnica (CONET)), earning her technical instructor's certification. As there were few prospects for a black woman in the arts to earn a living in Bahía Blanca, she left the area in 1985 and moved to Buenos Aires. Between 1985 and 1987, Soares studied and worked as a dance instructor on a scholarship in the dance school of Aida Prestifilippo, the principal dancer of the Teatro Colón. In addition to providing the scholarship Prestifilippo helped introduce Soares to the dance circuit in Buenos Aires, allowing her to perform at various local venues.[1]
The era was one of cultural expansion, following the suppression of individual expression throughout the period of
At the end of 2006, Soares left the Center, though she continued with private dance instruction and taught a seminar which consolidated Afro-Brazilian and
References
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g h Fernández Bravo 2016.
- ^ a b c d Más 2016.
- ^ a b c d Florencia 2013, p. 3.
- ^ a b Montenegro 2017.
- ^ Ministry of Education 2006.
- ^ Infante 2010, p. 86.
- ^ Plaza 2006.
Bibliography
- Fernández Bravo, Nicolás (2016). "Soares, Isa (1953– ), Afro-Brazilian dancer, dance instructor, and activist". In Knight, Franklin W.; Gates Jr., Henry Louis (eds.). Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-199-93580-2. – via Oxford University Press's Reference Online (subscription required)
- Florencia, Piña (2013). Expresiones artísticas afro y redefiniciones de la memoria social en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires: La danza de Orixás [Afro-artistic expressions and redefinitions of the social memory of the City of Buenos Aires: The Dance of Orixás] (PDF). VII Jornadas Santiago Wallace de Investigación en Antropología Social (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- Infante, Javier Alejandro (2010). El Juego como uno de los métodos de la transmisión oral en el aprendizaje de las culturas negro africanas [Play as one of the methods of oral transmission in the study of black African cultures] (Licenciatura en Artes Visuales) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- Más, Toni (September 2016). "Isa: Un Mundo en 16 Instancias" [Isa: One World 16 Moments]. Balletin Dance (in Spanish). 23 (257). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Balletin Dance. ISSN 1850-6275. Archived from the originalon 6 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- Montenegro, Alfredo (30 May 2017). "Las raíces negadas (parte IV): La resistencia en danza" [Roots denied (part IV): The resistance in dance] (in Spanish). Rosario, Argentina: Redacción Rosario. Archived from the original on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- Plaza, Gabriel (1 December 2006). "El retumbar de la cultura afro" [The rumble of African culture] (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: La Nación. Archived from the original on 6 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- "4° Escuela de Verano de Arte y Educación" [4th Summer School of Art and Education]. Education Argentina (in Spanish). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ministry of Education. 21 February 2006. Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 6 March 2018.