Alessandra Leão E O Xamba Coletivo
26 July, 2011New video from Vincent Moon’s Petites Planetes series. This one is an outtake – albeit one that is better than most published takes – of Alessandra Leão and a group labelled the Xamba Coletivo partaking in a song and dance ritual from the Xamba religion (or Nação).
Here’s how Vincent describes the film, which was recorded in Recife in February 2011:
It started with the desire to do something around the Candomblé traditions. Not filming a candomblé ritual, but organizing something else, in the space of candomblé – in this case, in the beautiful terreiro Xamba. I was in Recife, in the north east of Brazil, staying at Alessandra’s place. We decided to bring a lot of her musical friends to perform and improvise an hour of religous songs. Here is the result of our own ritual.
See more films from the Petites Planetes series at petitesplanetes.cc.
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