Hi, I am Daniel! I´m a 35 yo guy from Brazil with dual citizenship(brazilian and portuguese). I am set on being open to know new places and learn from different lifestyles and worldviews; also, I am very enthusiastic about getting to know other languages and their particular musicality.
I´m also very fond of singing, playing music and (free)dancing; playing and experimenting with movement and balance, contact-impro, and the wide range of possibilities opened by our body as means of self-expression.

One day I will:
write more
translate my days into poetry
exercise more of my imagination
create new colors
learn to sail
recognize my clown-self
recognize me as a clown
talk to me ...and listen
sing my songs
have a child
remember more of my dreams
learn to rollerskate
create (semi-)fictional characters
play sax and cello
be deeply connected to someone
teach/disseminate means of expression such as music, dance, painting, graffiti
learn carpentry
be deeply in love
be living off giving and receiving
be more spontaneous
be more enthusiastic
be more passionate
be more present
be more compassionate
be more attentive

For the last two years I have been part of a community originated from a group of urban exiles from different parts of the country who chose to live a more sustainable and meaningful life. Since the early nineties this community has been reforesting and preserving a large parcel of land situated at the outskirts of a national park in Brazil´s northeastern countryside. It´s based on a do-it-yourself ethics, seeking to cultivate a pluralist social environment with nonsexist, horizontal relations.
Kind of a hippie-punk group of nice people, if I may say so :-) We produce natural cosmetics and dried medicinal herbs, and from time to time hold events and courses on permaculture, bio-building, agroforestry...

This summer and autumn, 2017, I´m cycling from the UK down to the south of France and open to other destinations. I hope I may meet many friendly open-minded people, dreams and projects along the road!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

we can have a coffee and take a walk around.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

haven´t yet. I started this profile seven years ago, but have never used it

Interests

• theater
• street art
• dancing
• contemporary dancing
• coffee
• japanese food
• reading
• traveling
• dumpster diving
• drawing
• music
• sailing
• languages
• laughing
• massage
• circus
• contact improvisation
• busking
• jamming
• graffiti
• performance
• freeganism
• world cinema
• squatting
• playing chess
• clowning
• culture jamming
• trainhopping
• subvertion!!!
• nonsense poetry

Music, Movies, and Books

Emir Kusturika, Fellini, kubrick, win wenders
gilberto gil, hermeto pascoal, itamar assunção, ceumar, chico buarque, jorge ben, chick corea, jeff beck, charles mingus, herbie hencock, John lee perry.
'Breakfast of Champions' - kurt vonnegut; 'The Brothers Karamazov' - dostoevsky; 'Rayuela' - julio cortázar 'John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs' - jack london; 'Cem Anos de Solidão' - g. garcia marques; 'Orlando', 'Passeio ao Farol' - virginia woolf; 'Narciso e Goldmund', 'Roshalde', h. hesse; 'Doll´s House' - h. ibsen; 'Naufrágios' - cabeza de vaca; 'Tonio Krueger' - thomas mann; 'A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro D´agua', 'Jubiabá' - Jorge Amado; 'Grande sertão, veredas' - Guimarães Rosa; monteiro lobato´s children´s books

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I went firefighting up the hills into the woods at night a number of times...

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay

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