Choreos and character design

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 As a consequence of my work being featured without consent, I had trouble keeping up with dance and further developing my choreos. Bellow is a preliminary and incomplete list of my choreos, dance scenes and character designs.

Before 2000

Choreos and dance moves

  • Dance moves: basic Saidi steps 
  • Dance move: torso rotation with arms up and hands behind head
  • Dance move: reverse back flip with leg strech finishing  
  • Dance move: full boday shimmie starting from lower legs and knees, inspired by the lyrics of Samba Rasgado 

  • Dance move (club dance): half hip circle with reverse move for Cake's Never There  
  • Fatal Dance I ( Medusa's dance, inspired by child's play "statue/freeze", at the sound of the song If Looks Could Kill performed by Heart)
  • Paint it Black, 1st version ( for the Rolling Stones' song, with Flamenco moves and a reverse seven veils dance, including costume )

  • Fatal Dance II ( among jars, inspired by traditional folklore jar belly dance dance, with elements of  contemporay dance, including scenography )

  • Fatal Dance III ( shooting detour with Shiva arms and turkish drop end, including scenography ) 

  • Fatal Dance IV ( sequence of folklore dances with final death in each of them )  
  • Fatal Dance V ( ICU dance, including costume ) 

Character design 

  • Girl with machine gun arm, already named Furiosa 

  • Girl with machine gun leg, unnamed 
  •  Cora ( skinny singer/dancer popstar ) 
  •  Miss Kitty ( singer produced by a DJ ) 
  •  Sam Cook, late 50-s/early 60s balad singer
  • The Surffagettes, fictional all-female band contemporary of The Beatles, that performed in uniforms in the same period that they wore suits and were forgotten by Rockn'Roll history. ( Inspired by female pioneers of computing. )

Costumes

  • Machine gun bra 

 

 

2000 and beyond

Choreos

  • Falsa Baiana ( inspired by João Gilberto's recording of Falsa Baiana and Fátima Montes belly dance teaching video, presenting egyptian and arabic belly dance styles )
  • Paint it Black, 2nd version ( including traditional folklore melea alaf dance elements ) 
  •  O que é que a baiana tem? ( inspired by traditional folklore dance Khaleege and Dorival Caymmi's -in portuguese recording of O que é que a baiana tem? ) 

 

 

Photo: Julio Cesar Costa

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