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| A lively Brazilian carnival pageant comes to the River Wear | A lively Brazilian carnival pageant comes to the River Wear |
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| The River Wear at Durham will see a riverboat pageant with a difference this Saturday. The Ferryhill Town brass band, dancers from Tin Arts and many others will be taking part in Keep Your Hat On, a carnival performance work devised by Arto Lindsay, specially commissioned as part of this year's ¡Vamos! Festival of Latin and Lusophone culture. | The River Wear at Durham will see a riverboat pageant with a difference this Saturday. The Ferryhill Town brass band, dancers from Tin Arts and many others will be taking part in Keep Your Hat On, a carnival performance work devised by Arto Lindsay, specially commissioned as part of this year's ¡Vamos! Festival of Latin and Lusophone culture. |
| Keep Your Hat On is partly a tribute to the multi-talented and flamboyant Brazilian artist, architect, pioneering performance artist, sculptor, designer, choreographer, film-maker, writer, dramatist, engineer and all-round provocateur Flávio de Carvalho (1899-1973), who was a student of both painting and engineering at Newcastle, graduating in 1922. | Keep Your Hat On is partly a tribute to the multi-talented and flamboyant Brazilian artist, architect, pioneering performance artist, sculptor, designer, choreographer, film-maker, writer, dramatist, engineer and all-round provocateur Flávio de Carvalho (1899-1973), who was a student of both painting and engineering at Newcastle, graduating in 1922. |
| Carvalho was one of the leading Brazilian modernists of the first half of the 20th century. His first solo exhibition, in 1934, was closed down on grounds of indecency by the police – his swift revenge was to clothe all of São Paulo's public statues in white pyjamas. | Carvalho was one of the leading Brazilian modernists of the first half of the 20th century. His first solo exhibition, in 1934, was closed down on grounds of indecency by the police – his swift revenge was to clothe all of São Paulo's public statues in white pyjamas. |
| The previous year he had had to seek police protection when he created his first public performance piece, Experiência No 2 - walking home one day in early summer he came across a procession of bare-headed Christians celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi. He rushed home to find a cap and then ostentatiously walked against the flow of the procession with his head defiantly covered. | The previous year he had had to seek police protection when he created his first public performance piece, Experiência No 2 - walking home one day in early summer he came across a procession of bare-headed Christians celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi. He rushed home to find a cap and then ostentatiously walked against the flow of the procession with his head defiantly covered. |
| The outraged crowd of worshippers was on the point of lynching him for disrespect when he was rescued by the police. His brushes with the law continued when the opening night of his Bailado do Deus Morto (Ballet of a Dead God) was raided, and the entire audience and cast taken to the local police station, where the first – and possibly last – performance of the work continued in front of the bemused policemen. | The outraged crowd of worshippers was on the point of lynching him for disrespect when he was rescued by the police. His brushes with the law continued when the opening night of his Bailado do Deus Morto (Ballet of a Dead God) was raided, and the entire audience and cast taken to the local police station, where the first – and possibly last – performance of the work continued in front of the bemused policemen. |
| A later experiência saw him parade through São Paulo dressed in a skirt and striped short-sleeved blouse, separated from his body by a corset, and designed to help office workers avoid getting too sweaty in summer. It somehow never quite caught on. | A later experiência saw him parade through São Paulo dressed in a skirt and striped short-sleeved blouse, separated from his body by a corset, and designed to help office workers avoid getting too sweaty in summer. It somehow never quite caught on. |
| The Keep Your Hat On performance this Saturday is unlikely to see anybody getting their collar felt by the Durham constabulary. | The Keep Your Hat On performance this Saturday is unlikely to see anybody getting their collar felt by the Durham constabulary. |
| The Prince Bishop, a river cruiser, will be going up and down the Wear, past the dramatic views of Durham Cathedral, loaded with a cargo of brass musicians and dancers, with the music being mixed by Arto Lindsay and re-broadcast from a rowing boat, so watchers along the river bank will be treated to the live sound of the band and the simultaneous remixing, as well as enjoying the dancers. | The Prince Bishop, a river cruiser, will be going up and down the Wear, past the dramatic views of Durham Cathedral, loaded with a cargo of brass musicians and dancers, with the music being mixed by Arto Lindsay and re-broadcast from a rowing boat, so watchers along the river bank will be treated to the live sound of the band and the simultaneous remixing, as well as enjoying the dancers. |
| The music will come from a mixture of the Ferryhill band's own repertoire, improvisations and some works by Hannabiell Sanders, a bass trombonist from New Jersey who is now studying for a PhD in Newcastle. | The music will come from a mixture of the Ferryhill band's own repertoire, improvisations and some works by Hannabiell Sanders, a bass trombonist from New Jersey who is now studying for a PhD in Newcastle. |
| Arto Lindsay is a American artist, composer and musician who was brought up in Brazil, and who has worked with Brian Eno and performed with the Lounge Lizards as well as playing a cameo role in Desperately Seeking Susan. He has taken part in many of Brazil's riotous carnivals, including the Salvador da Bahia one, which is acknowledged by the Guinness book of records as "the world's biggest party." | Arto Lindsay is a American artist, composer and musician who was brought up in Brazil, and who has worked with Brian Eno and performed with the Lounge Lizards as well as playing a cameo role in Desperately Seeking Susan. He has taken part in many of Brazil's riotous carnivals, including the Salvador da Bahia one, which is acknowledged by the Guinness book of records as "the world's biggest party." |
| The ¡Vamos! festival has been running in the North East since 2006. This year the programme, which runs until July 15th, includes over 240 events and is expected to attract an audience of around 100,000. Highlights include the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera photographic exhibition at the Bowes Museum as well as a new video work by the Peruvian artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca at mima and an installation by Venezuelan artist Jaime Gili in Tynemouth Station. The ¡Vamos! festival's co-director Nik Barrera said: | The ¡Vamos! festival has been running in the North East since 2006. This year the programme, which runs until July 15th, includes over 240 events and is expected to attract an audience of around 100,000. Highlights include the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera photographic exhibition at the Bowes Museum as well as a new video work by the Peruvian artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca at mima and an installation by Venezuelan artist Jaime Gili in Tynemouth Station. The ¡Vamos! festival's co-director Nik Barrera said: |
| ¡VAMOS! Festival's visual arts programme is especially strong this year and we are delighted to have been able work with renowned Mexican curator Pablo León de la Barra to commission three leading Latin American artists, and with partners mima in Middlesbrough, North Tyneside Council and Durham County Council, the organiser of BRASS: Durham International Festival, as part of the celebration of the Cultural Olympiad. | ¡VAMOS! Festival's visual arts programme is especially strong this year and we are delighted to have been able work with renowned Mexican curator Pablo León de la Barra to commission three leading Latin American artists, and with partners mima in Middlesbrough, North Tyneside Council and Durham County Council, the organiser of BRASS: Durham International Festival, as part of the celebration of the Cultural Olympiad. |
| Keep Your Hat On starts at the Boathouse by Elvet Bridge, Durham, on Saturday 7 July at 11am. | Keep Your Hat On starts at the Boathouse by Elvet Bridge, Durham, on Saturday 7 July at 11am. |
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