I heard this podcast and it brought home the things that make me love Capoeira so much: the connection between body/mind and its therapeutic power, the community and the music. It also introduced me to Puma Camille and I’m now obsessed by the mix of Capoeira and Vogue. It’s also…
Twelve Covid-19 Capoeira Sequences
Twelve Covid-19 Capoeira Sequences 22 August 2020 I’ve been filming myself doing some of the sequences from Mestre Poncianinho’s online class during lockdown so that I can study and practice them regularly, and have a few sequences in my body that I can easily access at the right time during…
COVID-19
London 26 March 2020 London has been on lock down since Monday 23rd of March 2020 due to the coronavirus, a particularly virulent strain, named COVID-19. As I type this schools are closed, supermarket shelves are empty, people are working from home, not working at all or are otherwise overworking…
Music Class with Mestre Môa do Katendê
17 October 2017 Mestres João Grande and Môa do Katendê together in London · Hosted by Mestre Joãozinho Da Figueira Facebook Event Page Mestre Môa do Katendê Music Class – AUDIO Songs 7:45 Mestre Pequeno João Pequeno de Pastinha Quem falou que ele não vinha Completar Nossa alegria Ele trouxe…
Contra Mestre Marcelo Finco
10 November 2018 Contra Mestre Marcelo Finco (Associação de Capoeira Angola N’golo ia Muanda) is a great cantador, student of Mestre Ananias and currently living in Greece. Marcelo Finco on Facebook Marcelo Finco’s Blog Marcelo Finco SoundCloud Marcelo Finco on YouTube CM Marcelo Finco singing 15 December 2019 Marcelo Finco…
Moa do Katendê’s murder
09 October 2018 Mestre Moa do Katendê, Romualdo Rosário da Costa, 63 years old, was stabbed in the back, 12 times in total, after an argument with Paulo Sérgio Ferreira de Santana, 36, at a bar near his house, on the night of the Presidential (and local) elections in Brazil.…
MAIOR É DEUS, GRANDE É JOÃO!
Click here to support ‘Maior é deus grande é João’ João Oliveira dos Santos, Mestre João Grande (Master “Big John”), aged 85, the eldest living active capoeira practitioner in the world, is an icon of the traditional form of capoeira. Considered to be the master of masters by the capoeira…