Oct 26 2011
Written by Mestre Cobra Mansa Source: ICAF-CT website Most capoeiristas in Brazil and all over the world are construction workers, teachers, students, wives, husbands, doctors, lawyers, bums, bankers, administrators, unemployed, musician, artists etc. In brief, most capoeiristas, if not all, are part of that thing we call Society. Most capoeiristas live within that society and …
Oct 26 2011
Compiled from various sources and translated into English by Shayna McHugh Capoeira is a fight of dancers. It is a dance of gladiators. It is a duel of comrades. It is game, it is dance, it is combat – a perfect synthesis of force and rhythm, poetry and agility. – Dias Gomes Capoeira is the …
Oct 26 2011
Translation into English: Shayna McHugh Source: Revista Capoeira Mestre Mão Branca: “The word ‘Mestre’ is very strong. The Mestre is a symbol, a guide. It’s not just the great capoeirista or one who is untouchable in the roda, but someone who works for the benefit of capoeira and its place in society. To be Mestre is …
Oct 26 2011
Written by Miltinho Astronauta Translation into English by Shayna McHugh Source: Jornal do Capoeira, May 2005 It’s common for interviews in capoeira magazines to ask if the interviewee frequents Street Rodas. The funniest thing is that the response, without thinking twice, is unanimous: “Of course… all the time… in every city that I visit I …
Oct 26 2011
Written by Ana Carolina Araújo Source: Correio da Bahia, 03/08/2006 Translation into English: Shayna McHugh Whoever passes through tourist areas such as the Mercado Modelo or the Terreiro de Jesus is used to seeing the capoeira rodas that form daily, attracting the tourists’ attention and monetary contributions. Few people, however, have the opportunity to get …
Oct 26 2011
These are my notes from a lecture given by Mestre Moraes at the Brazilian Capoeira Angola Association in Salvador, on October 24th, 2006. Mestre Moraes began by saying that capoeira is not “genuinely Brazilian” – what on earth has Brazil contributed to capoeira? The art is African because its roots come from Africans of various ethnicities; …
Oct 26 2011
Written by Luis Renato Vieira “Carioquinha” Translation by Shayna McHugh Source: Capoeira da Bahia Violence is a characteristic trace of contemporary society. It is manifested in different forms in daily life: in television, in movies, in video games, in various sports, in politics, and in the various spheres of human behavior. In global terms, the cost of …
Oct 26 2011
Written by Patricia Morais Translation by Shayna McHugh Source: Capoeira da Bahia “If the roots are cut, how will the species perpetuate itself?” – Mestre Nô Starting from the concept of ethics as “the study of actions or habits, or the actual enactment of a type of behavior,” we can study capoeira’s ethical content through a …
Oct 26 2011
Written by Mestre Damião, student of Mestre Bimba Excerpted from Conversando Sobre Capoeira (Talking About Capoeira) Translated by Shayna McHugh Some of the life lessons that Mestre Damião learned from Mestre Bimba during the time they spent together in São Paulo. Always have “maldade no corpo” (evil in one’s body). In other words, we should always be …
Oct 26 2011
Source: Praticando Capoeira, ano 01, n.04 Translated into English by Shayna McHugh The first woman to become a capoeira mestre in Brazil, and the current president of the Rio de Janeiro Capoeira Federation, speaks about the difficulties she had to overcome to reach her goals. Fatima Colombiana (43) was born in Rio de Janeiro and …
