Interview with musician Anuiá Amarü, held in January 2017, in Imbassaí (BA) at the Meeting of Cultures Festival – Dancing for Peace – a multiethnic meeting with five different Brazilian indigenous cultures and cultures from abroad.
Anuiá comes from a family of shamans of two peoples of the Xingu: Kamayurá and Yawalapiti, being the eldest son of Maniwa Kamayurá, master of the arts and crafts of traditional knowledge. During the festival, Anuiá interacts with different musicians and dance teachers from different countries.
Interviewed by researcher and musician Magda Pucci and Dutch journalist Charlie Crooijmans, Anuiá Amarü plays his flute and explains how he learned to play the Kuluta flute and about his expertise in building the Xingu hollows.
Recorded in the Topepeweké village of the Waujá people in the Xingu (MT), this video presents songs of the ritual of the cassava named Kukuho. The ritual coordinated by singer and researcher Akarí Waujá was filmed by award-winning filmmaker Takumã Kuikuro.
Kuikuro visits the Waujá village of Akari and films the singers of this important people of the Upper Xingu. Akari is a musician, storyteller and leader of the Waujá do Xingu community, located at the southern end of the Amazon basin, in Mato Grosso. A speaker of the Arawak family’s maipure language, Akari seeks to preserve and share the traditional music of his people by participating in teaching activities in villages where musical knowledge is almost extinct. Akari is teaching and documenting the songs that are part of the rituals and practices of Wauja culture and collaborates in indigenous cultural conservation projects.
The Multiethnic Orchestra was an experience held in 2019, at Aldeia Multietnica, a space that has been home to one of the most important meetings of indigenous peoples in Brazil since 2007.
This orchestra brought together more than a hundred indigenous people from the Karajá, Krahó, Guarani, Fulni-Ô, Kayapó, Kariri-Xocó, Yawalapiti, Waujá, Kamayurá and Maxakali peoples. The result was a powerful and transformative artistic dialogue that is based on the concept of ORE MBORAI – our singing/praying, united in one voice.
There was a space for meeting, reflection and strengthening, which mobilized indigenous people and their knowledge, enabling integrated actions of creation, registration and training. The direction of this unique meeting was in charge of the musician and researcher Renata Amaral, from the group A Barca. All voices were heard and resonated collectively poetically.