Contestant in the B*Girl 2 on 2 Battle

Name: MORGANA Silva de Sousa
Nationality: Brazilian
Crew: CO 4
Born in: Mauá, São Paulo, Brazil
Age: 27
Residence: São Paulo, Brazil
Interests: Music, traveling, dancing
Profession: Dancer

Website: www.discipulosdoritmo.com

Motto: Slow and sure!!!! Never give up!!!

Titles

2002 Best B-Girl Event King of the Circle, City of Votorantim, Brazil
2004 Best B-Girl Event 9o Top Dance Orion, City of São Paulo, Brazil
2005 Invitation B-Girl Be, Minneapolis, USA

Profile
MORGANA Silva de Sousa first connected with the B-Boy scene in 1999. That year she went to a Naughty by Nature concert in Sao Paulo where she met lots of rappers and dancers. Somebody handed her a flyer about a B-Boy battle with the Backspin Crew and others. She had no idea what this was about, but she was curious and so she went to check it out.

She was stunned when she arrived at the venue in Rio Branco Ave.—there were circles everywhere with B-Boys dancing. There were only two B-Girls participating, but MORGANA knew immediately—that was what she wanted! Soon after, she met Eduardo Sô who became her teacher and she took classes with him for two months, but couldn’t keep it up because of job conflicts. After learning the basics with Eduardo, she joined a crew to practice with experienced people, but in this crew nobody really knew how to break it down to her.

In 2002, MORGANA met Eduardo Sô again, left the crew and started dancing with Discipulos do Ritmo. She was a backup dancer, but after one of the other dancers left the company she became a full member and started doing shows with them.

Through the show “Fresta” with Discipulos do Ritmo, MORGANA was able to develop her whacking and punking—dance styles she had started to learn four years earlier after meeting the German dancer Storm who had gotten her into them. She started practicing whacking and punking by herself with only a few images and videos she had seen like one of Lollypop from Los Angeles. Eventually, MORGANA created her own language by mixing whacking and popping with breaking. She hopes that more B-Girls will get interested in these styles.

“It is a very long learning process to become a good breaker,” MORGANA says. “The learning process never stops. First you learn the basic steps, then you add new moves all the time. When you get really good, you start working even harder to develop your own style and identity and that involves fine-tuning all the steps and moves that you learned over the years. It’s a process of constant development.”

MORGANA is grateful to have had teachers who are some of the best dancers in Brazil such as Frank Ejara and Andrezinho. She feels to make progress, a dancer needs to practice hard and for a long time, but it makes it a lot easier if you have good dancers showing you the way. She works hard to be able to make a living from dance, but she will start to study tourism soon to have something to fall back on when she can’t dance anymore. At present MORGANA gives classes twice a week for girls from thirteen to seventeen as part of a social project called Mensageiros.

MORGANA loves to travel and meet other dancers to exchange knowledge. When asked about a special moment in her career she fires back the answer—when she was dancing at an MC Medusa concert in Minneapolis with Asia One from LA, Rokafella from New York and Aruna from Rotterdam, B-Girls who have been a big inspiration for her and many others "It was a honor."

MORGANA loved meeting all the B-Boys and B-Girls from around the world at the RED BULL BC ONE in São Paulo.