Grand Performances in partnership with The City of Culver City, presents a free Brazilian Block party at Town Plaza at The Culver Steps featuring Viver Brasil and DJ Potira!
The celebration kicks off at 4:00 PM with a set by DJ Potira, followed by Viver Brasil’s Samba in the Streets (SITS) who will perform two sets celebrating Samba and Afro-Brazilian dance and music. Get ready to dance as Viver Brasil will lead a dance workshop, no experience necessary. Between sets, DJ Potira will keep the energy high with her captivating beats.
This performance is made possible in part by The City of Culver City and its Cultural Affairs Commission, with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment and Culver City Arts Foundation.
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Schedule:
4:00 PM: DJ Potira
5:00 PM: Viver Brasil (first set)
5:45 PM: DJ Potira
6:15 PM: Viver Brasil (second set)
7:00 PM: End of show
Town Plaza at Culver City Steps
About Viver Brasil
VIVER BRASIL, a legacy-bearing institution in Los Angeles, was established in 1997 by Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Linda Yudin and Luiz Badaró. Viver Brasil creates culturally rooted and aesthetically bold Afro-Brazilian dance theater with its signature blend of ancestral practices, including orixa movement, music, and mythology, the popular dances of samba de roda, street styles of the blocos afro, and live music–addressing contemporary issues of racial and social inequity towards a radically joyful reimagined present and future. The company has performed throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, and South Africa.
In 2024, Viver Brasil received its second National Dance Project Production Award from the New England Foundation for the Arts to create Rezas e Folhas with choreography by Vera Passos. Since its inception, Viver Brasil has fostered a spirit of collaboration by amplifying the voices of Bahian masters and its company members in Los Angeles. Viver Brasil has presented work by Luiz Badaró and Vera Passos, Rosangela Silvestre, Shelby Williams-Gonzalez, and Marina Magalhães. Elder wisdom is an essential pillar of Viver Brasil’s research practice. It regularly collaborates with Bahian wise elder Iya Agba Cici, and honors the knowledge of late Sambadeira, Joselita Moreira Cruz da Silva, and Afro-Brazilian dance pioneer Mestre King. These partnerships enrich Viver Brasil's knowledge and significantly contribute to its bold, impactful work in Afro-Brazilian dance, with live music on and off the stage.
Its Samba in the Streets Tour regularly performs throughout Southern CA and also tours to the American South. Since 2013, Viver Brasil has performed in Disney California Adventure Park’s winter-season Viva Navidad Street Fiesta Parade with an extended cast of 30 performers. The company, in its 12th year, is testifying to the parade’s popularity and appeal.
To learn more about us, please visit https://www.instagram.com/viverbrasildance/, www.viverbrasil.com
DJ Potira (Renata Belém)
DJ Potira (Renata Belém), a Brazilian-born DJ and capoeirista now based in Los Angeles, is known for connecting Afro-Brazilian traditions with contemporary club culture, weaving samba, house, and hip hop into high-energy dance sets.
This performance is made possible in part by the City of Culver City and its Cultural Affairs Commission, with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.
