{"id":326060,"date":"2023-03-08T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/quadrilha-junina-tera-como-tema-sertao-das-arabias\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T16:17:41","slug":"brazilian-square-dance-group-has-arabian-sertao-as-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-square-dance-group-has-arabian-sertao-as-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian square dance group has \u201cArabian Sert\u00e3o\u201d as theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The fusion between Arab and Northeastern Brazilian cultures will be the theme of a Rio de Janeiro-based June festival [festa junina] square dance group this year. The Cultural Association Quadrilha Junina Gera\u00e7\u00e3o Realce announced the theme \u2018Sert\u00e3o das Ar\u00e1bias\u2019<\/strong> [\u2018Arabian Sert\u00e3o\u2019] for 2023, authored by cultural producers Ricardo Lizio and Wilson Mendes.<\/p>\n

In an interview with ANBA, Wilson Mendes informed the theme pays homage to the Arab people who arrived in Brazil from the 19th century. It draws a parallel between the Arabian desert and the northeastern hinterlands, the Sert\u00e3o<\/strong>, portraying the influence of Arab, Moorish, and Muslim civilizations in the Brazilian Northeast.<\/p>\n

Gera\u00e7\u00e3o Realce<\/strong> is a folkloric square dance group that also has social projects. Each year, it brings a different theme. Last year, it presented the nativity of St. John the Baptist (patron saint of Brazil\u2019s June festivals) and the origins of the celebrations (pictured above<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Gera\u00e7\u00e3o Realce was founded 28 years ago and, in 2019, became part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Rio de Janeiro. The group is the current state champion and representative of Rio de Janeiro in the Brazilian National Square Dance Contest [Concurso Nacional de Quadrilhas], to be held in Par\u00e1 from July 7 to 9.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe group was founded based on Brazilian singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil\u2019s 1979 song \u2018Realce.\u2019 My father [Ricardo Lizio] was the founder, and that year, they assembled a carnival street party, which later became a square dance group<\/strong>. They entered a hiatus in 1986, and I resumed the group in 1994,\u201d said Mendes.<\/p>\n

The group performs in June and July in shopping malls, cultural centers, samba schools, and public squares in Rio de Janeiro and other municipalities and states.<\/p>\n

The idea for the theme, according to Mendes, came from reading a series of ANBA stories<\/strong> on correlations between Arabs and the Brazilian Northeast and cord\u00e9is (a format of popular booklets in Brazil), such as the collections of short stories \u2018Ali Bab\u00e1 e os quarenta cangaceiros\u2019 [\u2018Ali Bab\u00e1 and the forty cangaceiros\u2019] and \u2018Xerazade, a On\u00e7a e o Saci\u2019 [\u2018Scheherazade, the Jaguar, and the Saci\u2019], both by Tiago de Melo Andrade; and \u2018O Pav\u00e3o Misterioso\u2019 [\u2018The Mysterious Peacock\u2019], by Jos\u00e9 Camelo de Melo Rezende; and \u2018Sert\u00e3o das Arabias\u2019 [\u2018Arabian Sert\u00e3o\u2019], written and illustrated by F\u00e1bio Sombra.<\/p>\n

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Gera\u00e7\u00e3o Realce\u2019s theme in 2022 was Saint John the Baptist<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The group will tell the story of the fictional city of \u2018Sert\u00e3o das Ar\u00e1bias\u2019 [\u2018Arabian Sert\u00e3o\u2019], where Moors, Muslims, Arabs, and Brazilian Northeasterners live in the countryside of Cear\u00e1<\/strong>. \u201cThe group\u2019s main couple of dancers will be an Arab man who falls in love with a woman from the Brazilian Northeast, and she thinks she cannot marry him because of their cultural differences,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw many correlations in music, clothing, food, and things we didn\u2019t know. Coco and bai\u00e3o<\/strong> [typical northeastern rhythms], the repentista [improvisation poet], the viola caipira player, the fiddler, the herder clothing, the adornments of clothes, and much more things. So we started working from that,\u201d said Mendes.<\/p>\n

The cultural producer says, in his research, he found Arab influences in all nine states of the Brazilian Northeast. \u201cThere is Our Lady of Lebanon<\/strong> in Piau\u00ed, in Bahia, there is couscous<\/strong>; we are collecting all these influences and putting them on the group\u2019s allegories, songs, and dances. The group will have two belly dancers<\/strong>, and all songs will have some Arab influence. We will dance to an Arab-style bai\u00e3o, an Arabian forr\u00f3,\u201d he illustrated.<\/p>\n

The costumes will also show this confluence of cultures. \u201cWe will have a herder with a turban, a Bedouin with a cangaceiro hat\u2026<\/strong> all that mixture of influences and confluences,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mendes said the group\u2019s presentation is like a samba school parade, except it\u2019s all in the same place instead of a moving spectacle, bringing together 40 couples<\/strong> with different songs and costume changes.<\/p>\n

The performances will occur during the June festival season from June to July. \u201cWe are in the phase of putting together the presentation, the rehearsals last two months, we have to present a technical rehearsal in May, without costumes, only with songs and dances, and then presentations will start in June,\u201d he informed.<\/p>\n

Gera\u00e7\u00e3o Realce Square Dance Group is seeking sponsorship<\/strong> for the Quadrilhas Juninas National Contest, to take place in Par\u00e1 in July, where they will square off against other groups from all around the country to be Brazilian champions.<\/p>\n

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Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n

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