
<P>Dance Brazil in "Black Anastácia"<P>photo: Lois Greenfield<BR> <P>Dance Brazil bring to NY the, '...45-minute "Black Anastácia," based on the blue-eyed beauty, now revered as a saint, who was an African tribal queen taken to Brazil as a slave in the 17th century. As a housekeeper on a sugar cane plantation, Anastácia taught her fellow slaves to worship their native African gods -- a strictly forbidden practice -- under the guise of Christianity.<P>Though the company calls "Black Anastácia" a ballet, there will be no pirouettes on point. Rather, the 12 dancers and 4 capoeiristas will perform as many styles of movement as there are interpretations of the story of Anastácia. In addition to capoeira -- the high-energy, acrobatic martial art disguised as dance for which DanceBrazil has been known since it was founded in 1977 -- there will be elements of samba, the national dance of Brazil, as well as North American-derived modern and jazz dance. All of this will be performed to an original score composed by the percussionist Cyro Baptista and the electronic sound engineer and musician Peter Scherer.' <P><BR>If you have not done so already, you will need to register (free) with the NY Times site first. This link will last for a week from the date of the posting.<P> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/artleisure/dancebrazil.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/artleisure/dancebrazil.html</A> <p>[This message has been edited by Stuart Sweeney (edited May 21, 2000).]