Expressive Arts Orchestrator
Macaco Nova Yolk
Born Saman Dashti
Macaco's digital identity
Email - macaco212@gmail
Call/Text - (862) 234-0014
Approprating Warrior Arts Cultures @ LinkedIn
FaceBook - Macaco Nova York
Instagram - Liberation Arts
On Twitter as Early Crow circleing Central VA
Teaching
Conscious movement at VA Commonwealth U.
Teaching Liberation Arts in a Communities Conference
and his activities
Member of Local NAACP Branch Education Committee --> page
Interviewed on internet radio
Producing community events Winter 2016@Friendship Court
Performances with VibeFest 2019
Biography
Saman Dashti is an expressive arts facilitator helping people experience warrior arts culture. He is a Contremestre in the Afro-Brazilian art of Capoeira. Saman received his Capoiera artist name Macaco (monkey) because of the style of his physical prowess. He is one of the lead members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira of Mestre Cigano.
Saman was raised in Jamaica Queens and studied Environmental Sciences at UC Berkeley. He learned Capoeira in Newark NJ. As Teaching Artist Macaco he spent 12 years teaching art residencies in NYC area schools. His students cross diverse socioeconomic groups including children with special needs, autism and in behavioral health communities. Macaco travels to Bahia, Brazil to visit with elders in the arts. These sabbaticals provide in-depth experiences of the cultural context of the arts that are the foundation of his teaching.
Macaco is currently an arts educator and art circle celebrant in the intentional communities of central Virginia. His home is in Charlottesville. There he teaches in disenfranchised communities and partners with arts organizations that focus on proactively building community through arts education.
Contramestre Macaco at the
2019 Graduation of the students of Professora Amazonas
of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira, New Jersey
Copy of Capoeira Event 1.0.mp4
