She describes herself as a person of spirit with a large capacity to see beyond things and go in the direction it sends her. She is a theatre director, actress/professor, cultural and cinema/video producer, journalist, and advertiser, among other things. She is Clarice de Almeida e Silva, aka Clara Clarice, aka Kali. She belongs to Brazil.
Hello Clara, welcome to Blogcritics. How would you explain your association and role with various international agencies functioning in Brazil?
I represent of Swar International in Brazil, a Franco/Indian Foundation based in Paris, dedicated to promotion of Indian Arts worldwide. Pandit Shivkumar is the president of Swar International.
I am also actively engaged in the development of music, dance, and theatre events. I also represent a worldwide NGO, Artists in Action –Culture Unites Cultures for Humanity, based in Denmark and headed by Kurt Lindved; I'm responsible for establishing meeting points of culture in different parts of the world.
When did you feel that you and art had an internal connection in your life?
I wanted be a dancer and singer since my childhood. But due to family constraints I could not do much about it. Art came into my life very unexpectedly. I was an experienced journalist in the '90s and used to make reports about public transportation for many Brazilian magazines like Revista Ferroviária, Via Urbana, Carga e Transporte, and Carga in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and other cities. Later I became in charge of the São Paulo branch of the Empresa Jornalística dos Transportes.
While working on an assignment I had to travel from Brazil to Holland and stay in Amsterdam for some time. There I used to write for a bilingual newspaper (Portuguese/Netherlands) called Papagaio, about the Brazilian community in Holland. I was taking care of a Brazilian place where we used to have parties, musical presentations, and related stuff. It was with people who acted there that I started to develop my artistic side, the musical one that time. When I came back to Brazil it was the time of rebirth of the Brazilian cinema after a long period. I worked with Brazilian cinema in the city of Recife, with very nice people who today have international recognition. I also started giving classic dance lessons.
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