Film ‘Chic Show’ recalls the power of the black dance that gave identity and pride to young black people from São Paulo

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Available on Globoplay, the documentary brings testimonials from Emicida, Jorge Ben Jor, Mano Brown, Péricles, Rappin’ Hood and Thaíde when telling the story of Luiz Alberto da Silva’s team, Luizão. Luiz Alberto da Silva, Luizão, creator of the dance team ‘Chic Show’, is the protagonist of the documentary by Emílio Domingos and Felipe Giuntini Publicity / Globoplay Poster of the film ‘Chic Show’ Reproduction Review of the musical documentary Title: Chic Show Direction: Emílio Domingos and Felipe Giuntini Screenplay: Milena Manfredini Production: Globoplay Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ♪ “Memory is power. […] There is a tradition. And a very beautiful tradition…”, Emicida points out towards the end of the documentary Chic Show. “Chic show is resistance and always will be. This is the great legacy. It’s just for us to get organized, it’s just for us to unite, it’s just for us to know our own history and the rest we can easily manage… Well, it won’t be that easy… But we can do it”, adds another rapper from São Paulo, Thaíde. Thaíde’s speech concludes the documentary produced by Globoplay and available on the platform since Thursday, August 31, two months after it was presented on June 14 at the opening of the 15th edition of In-Edit Brasil – Festival Internacional do Documentário Musical, in São Paulo (SP). The film by Emílio Domingos and Felipe Giuntini tells the story of the dance team created in 1968 by Luiz Alberto da Silva, known as Luizão, the central character of the documentary. From the 1970s onwards, the Chic Show dances were instrumental in creating a black movement in São Paulo (SP), giving identity, voice, pride and reference to thousands of young black people in the city, most of whom were poor. The sequence of testimonials from names like Mano Brown, Péricles and the aforementioned Thaíde reiterates the importance of Luizão’s pioneering spirit as an entrepreneur alongside his brothers. “I felt at home there,” recalls Rappin’ Hood. “It was where I felt myself”, reiterates Ice Blue, rapper from the group Racionais MC’s. Stitched together by the memories of Luizão, who makes an effort to hold back his emotion when he recalls, in front of his son and grandson, the “toll” he had to pay to impose himself as a black businessman in a white-dominated corporate world in a country that does not admit itself to be racist. , Milena Manfredini’s script intertwines archival footage with testimonials that attest to the decisive importance of Chic Show in building a black scene in São Paulo that is still little known (by other states in Brazil). This scene was created in parallel with the Black Rio movement, much more covered by the media because almost all of the pioneers of Brazilian soul and funk – Cassiano from Paraíba (1943 – 2021), Rio de Janeiro Tim Maia (1942 – 1998), Hyldon from Bahia and the São Paulo Dom Salvador and Tony Tornado – were in Rio de Janeiro (RJ) when the genre erupted with force at the dawn of the 1970s. By promoting the party called São Paulo Chic between 1972 and 1974, the Chic Show team gained power and money as it increasingly mobilized the black youth of São Paulo – to the point where thousands of young people competed for tickets, bought pointy moccasin shoes and crowded beauty salons to take care of their black power hair to attend, as required by the costumes, the black dance later renamed Chic Show and held on the court of the club Palmeiras. While creating a center of resistance for black culture in Sampa, Luizão’s team expanded and occupied other spaces around the city, in addition to becoming a phonographic label, publishing records in partnership with multinational record companies, and entering the airwaves. Nelson Triunfo, dancer from the Chic Show, ‘flies’ over the audience with the cape of James Brown (1933 – 2006) in the concert performed by the singer in 1978 Penna Prearo / Publicity At first, the dances had the Chic Show DJs as attractions , skilled at playing both records by black music artists from Brazil and the United States. Afterwards, the team started to present shows by names like Jorge Ben Jor – “I had never sung for so many black people together”, celebrates Ben in the film – and Tim Maia, entering the international arena in the sequence. The presentation of the American singer James Brown (1933 – 2006), father of funk, on November 11, 1978, was one of the many historical landmarks of the Chic Show. That night, legendary dancer Nelson Triunfo flew over the audience with Brown’s cape. For having accompanied the evolution of black music, Chic Show also made history by presenting, in January 1988, a concert by rapper Koo Moo Dee, the first North American hip hop star to perform in Brazil, impacting names such as Mano Brown, KL Jay and Thaide. In the 1990s, Chic Show was also a pioneer in opening space for the generation of Belo and Péricles, sambistas influenced by black music. “Chic Show was the mother of the pagoda of the 1990s”, summarizes Péricles. All this is told in the documentary Chic Show without didacticism, but with clarity, through the testimonies of names like Sandra de Sá, a pioneering female voice of Brazilian black music. Without ever failing to highlight Luizão’s role, the film gives voice to artists who corroborate the power of Chic Show in building the identity of young black people from São Paulo. Power enhanced by the memories stirred up in this film that documents a transformative legacy.

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