Marietta Baderna -- marietta was the name of a server i used to admin back in the day, we choose it because of a Italian dancer, I quote the explanation:
"Baderna" is a unique word in Brazilian Portuguese which means confusion, disorder, mess. But its origin is peculiar: it served to classify, pejoratively, the noisy followers of an Italian dancer who caused a furore in the country, her name.? Marietta Maria Baderna.
The word that today defines the absence of rules emerged in the late 19th century, when an Italian dance company came to the then capital of the Empire of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. The trip was a form of protest against the political persecution: occupied by Austria, Italy revolutionaries had a consensus to not to promote artistic life as the occupation lasted as a form of protest.
Part of that company, the dancer Marietta Maria Baderna, daughter of doctor and musician Antonio Baderna, would have sought exile in Brazil as 1849. Talented, soon won a legion of fans, admirers both her dance moves as her rebellious spirit and contester . Innovative, she was criticized by introducing lundum elements (Afro-Brazilian dance practiced by slaves) between the steps of classical dance - amid a conservative and slave society.
Marietta Baderna was in Rio de Janeiro in 1851, causing "a certain frisson," according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The term "baderna" is associated with her admirers, called "the badernas" which sang Muse's name at the end of their presentations. The choir was frowned upon by society at the time, which associated the noise and unrestrained passion of the fans as something bad.
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On 08/03/2016 07:48 AM, micah wrote:
Kate ailanthus@riseup.net writes:
I love these; also (though obvious):
--Ada --SojournerTruth (ran Underground Railroad)
Are there other interesting people we could name it after? It's nice pluck an important person out of obscurity for things like this.
elysard. an early pseudonym of michael bakunin
"The Reaction in Germany" (1842), Bakunin's first political writings, under the pseudonym "Jules Elysard":
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