Heros Machado (1 June 1914 – 1 January 2004), known as Eros Volúsia was a Brazilian dancer and actress. Her dancing style blended classical ballet to Afro-Brazilian dancing traditions.
Volúsia participated in several movies in Brazil and Hollywood, among them the 1942 film
Rio Rita, starring
Abbott and Costello
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Biography
Volúsia was born in
Rio de Janeiro
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, in 1914; her parents were the poets
Gilka Machado and
Rodolfo Machado
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Volúsia entered the ballet school in 1928, where she studied under Maria Olenewa.
She also attended the
umbanda
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''terreiro'' of João da Luz, where she had her first contact with Afro-Brazilian dances.
In 1929, Volúsia made her first presentation at
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, dancing samba barefooted.
She would make another presentations in the following years, invited by cultural salonists like Paschoal Carlos Magno.
In the spirit of Brazilian modernism Volúsia researched Amerindian and African dances in order to create a "national dance" (bailado nacional).
In 1935 she participated of her first Brazilian film, ''Favela dos Meus Amores''. She would be featured in other four films in Brazil.
On 22 September 1941 she was featured at the cover of
Life magazine
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. The following year she participated in a musical act in the
MGM
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film Rio Rita, with Abbott and Costello. She would be compared to
Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda, (; born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, 9 February 1909 – 5 August 1955) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress and film star who was active from the late 1920s onwards. Nicknamed "The B ...
by local media.
Filmography
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1914 births
2004 deaths
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