Dance Lest We All Fall Down

An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeiristas, drug dealers, and wise teachers. She and African Brazilian activist Rita Conceicao joined forces to break the cycles of poverty and violence around them by pledging local residents they would create a top-quality educational program for girls. From 1991 to the graduation of Bahia Street's first college-bound graduate in 2005, Willson and Conceicao 's adventure took them to the shantytowns of Brazil's Northeast, high-society London, and urban Seattle.

In a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of this remarkable alliance, showing how friendship, when combined with courage, insight, and passion, can transform dreams of a better world into reality.

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Préface

In a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of how friendship, when combined with courage, insight, and passion, can transform dreams of a better world into reality.

Auteur

Margaret Willson

Contenu

Acknowledgments

Part One | Learning to Dance

1. Seduction

2. The First Return

3. Agnaldo and Candomble

4. Letting Salvador Inside

5. Learning to Dance

6. A Dangerous Embrace

7. Marginals

8. Sex and Friendship

9. Rain

10. Burnt Knives

11. A Stranger

Part Two | Treading Water

12. Encountering Seattle

13. Ideas

14. Life Change

15. Letting the Outer Skin Be Social

16. Of Race and Remembrance

17. More Sides of Bahia

18. A View Into the Abyss

19. Power and Presence

20. Trust

21. Tall Poppy

22. A Shadowed Color of Shade

Part Three | Laughter Lessons

23. Leaves of Understanding

24. Love

25. Barriers of Glass

26. Storms

27. Sharing a Lifeboat

28. Heartbreak

29. Evolution

30. Resting on the Wings of a Butterfly

Afterword