num_pages: 301
description: Dance Lest We All Fall Down is a gripping first-person account of one womans experiences living in a Brazilian shantytown. She a white American anthropologist joins forces with an African-Brazilian shantytown activist to change the violence and despair they see around them. Their pledge to the residents to create a top-quality educational center for girls becomes a turbulent journey that takes us from the shantytowns of Northeastern Brazil to urban Seattle to high-society London. With the author we experience a world of drug dealers street urchins and capoeiristas English socialites power-hungry do-gooders and wise teachers. This is a true story of insight and inspiration courage passion and intrigue.
language: English
title: Dance Lest We All Fall Down: A Journey of Friendship, Poverty, Power and Peace
publisher: Cold Tree Pr