Jan 24 2012
Leetal Besouros is an initiative by the students of Centre for Capoeira India to empower street children with the wonderful art of Capoeira. Currently the project is being run at a children’s shelter called, Vatsalya, in Mumbai. Enjoy this interview with Parikshit, the founder of the project! You can connect with Leetal Besouros on their …
Dec 02 2011
Mestre Moraes President and founder of GCAP – Grupo de Capoeira Angola Pelourinho Masters’ in Social History, Federal University of Bahia I’d like to try to pass on to you all of my concerns about the theme I’m bringing to the table regarding the issue of “bullying” in capoeira. We know that, in the various …
Oct 26 2011
Written by Ana Paula Pontes Source: Revista Crescer – Globo Translation into English by Shayna McHugh While the world watches yet another conflict unfold between Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza strip, a project for peace manages to survive in Jerusalem. Created in 2003 by the Brazilian anthropologist Michel Gherman during a moment of turbulence in …
Oct 26 2011
Homage to capoeira takes a rasteira Carnaval 2008 – Correio da Bahia Newspaper Source: PortalCapoeira Capoeira mestres complain of lack of recognition Excerpts from an article by Flávio Costa, Correio da Bahia newspaper. Source: PortalCapoeira The theme of “capoeira and its culture” got little exposure at Carnaval 2008, which sparked complaints from mestres and practitioners. Despite being …
Oct 26 2011
Written by Gladson de Oliveira Silva Vinicius Heine Capoeira was born of an oppressed people’s struggle for freedom. Inclusion is at the very core of capoeira, since it originated among socially excluded groups. Throughout its history, capoeira has always been associated with people excluded from the mainstream, yet who never ceased their struggle to affirm …
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
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
Source: Praticando Capoeira ano 01, n.05 Translated into English by Shayna McHugh Wagner Assis Fonseca Ruas, known as Contra-Mestre Aberrê, has practiced capoeira for over 20 years and is a member of Grupo Capoeira Gerais, of Mestre Mão Branca. In 1998, Aberrê began the Projeto Meninos de Pé no Chão (Project Children with Feet on …
Oct 26 2011
Source: PortalCapoeira Translated into English by Shayna McHugh Whoever knows Capoeira, knows what it is capable of. Capoeira is a game, a fight, a dance, a plaything, and philosophy. According to Mestre Paulo, “Capoeira is the only sport that has its own music. It’s the only fight in which men battle women and adults battle …
