Anna Marie de la Fuente Conspiracao, Brazil’s multi-Emmy nominated powerhouse indie, is poised to make “Pas de Deux,” a drama series about Bethania Gomes, the first Brazilian prima ballerina of the Harlem Dance Theatre and a current dance instructor there.Story pivots around the relationship and lives of Gomes and her mother Maria Beatriz Nascimento, a controversial historian and forerunner of the Black feminist movement of ‘70s Brazil who was killed for intervening in a friend’s domestic dispute.The series could not be more timely given the Black Rights Matter movement that begun in the U.S.
and sparked similar protests across the globe.“Brazil is still very racist even though Blacks comprise around 50% of our population,” said Juliana.
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