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Shango Music and Dance, DBA Samba Fogo

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Shango Music and Dance is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and provide access to the expression, appreciation, and understanding of Brazilian, African and Cuban music and dance. Shango engages in community music and dance classes, educational residencies, community performing arts groups, and professional stage performances, both locally and nationally. This dance company, named by a Portuguese phrase meaning "catching fire," is a culture and arts organization that has been cultivated in Salt Lake City through the vigor and charisma of its directors, dancer Lorin Hansen and her husband and musical director Mason Aeschbacher. In performance, they offer a dazzling fusion of capoeira (an afro-brazilian martial art), fire dancing, carnival samba and Brazilian Orixa dance accompanied by Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian music. All of these genres are presented in staged in dramatic colors, invoking original dance in earth and sky settings. Reviews of Samba Fogo's recent (May 2012) appearance may be found here http://www.slugmag.com/articles/3541/Samba-Fogo-presents-Pegando-Fogo-0503-Rose-Wagner.html and here http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/54050024-81/fire-fogo-dance-performance.html.csp .

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    Shango Music and Dance, DBA Samba Fogo

    130 South 1300 East #608
    Salt Lake City, UT 84102

    Phone: (801) 520-0444   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    02/02/12- 07/26/12

    Weekly Afro-Brazilian Dance Class Weekly Afro-Brazilian Dance Class Presented by Shango Music and Dance, DBA Samba Fogo February 2-July 26, 2012   Fun, energetic, great workout. pen to adults and adolescents of all ability levels. Live Drumming! Free Parking! Open to all levels. "Beginner Breakdown" class, every Thursday 6:00-6:30, just an extra $3.

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  • Current Events

    02/02/12- 07/26/12

    Weekly Afro-Brazilian Dance Class Weekly Afro-Brazilian Dance Class Presented by Shango Music and Dance, DBA Samba Fogo February 2-July 26, 2012   Fun, energetic, great workout. pen to adults and adolescents of all ability levels. Live Drumming! Free Parking! Open to all levels. "Beginner Breakdown" class, every Thursday 6:00-6:30, just an extra $3.

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    05/03/12- 05/05/12	Pegando Fogo Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
    03/10/12- 03/11/12	Samba Fogo's 3rd Annual Samba Queen Competition Sugar Space Studio for the Arts
    05/29/11	Samba Fogo Urban Lounge
    03/18/11- 03/19/11	Samba Fogo Presents: Fogo Na Cabe Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
    03/04/11- 06/03/11	Samba Fogo Presents: Samba Criança Utah Arts Alliance

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    • Event Name: Samba Fogo Presents: Fogo Na Cabe
      "Beautiful, amazing dance and percussion"
      Comment posted by: Joanna from Salt Lake City, UT, Mar 06, 2011
      

      This is an amazing troupe of dancers, drummers, and capoeiristas. You won't even believe they are reside in Salt Lake because they will teleport you to Brazil. Do not miss this show and all of it's... Expand

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      This is an amazing troupe of dancers, drummers, and capoeiristas. You won't even believe they are reside in Salt Lake because they will teleport you to Brazil. Do not miss this show and all of it's fire, lighting and musical magic. Collapse

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