Tag: capoeira
The story of my involvement with Brazil spans seven years and five or six trips back and forth for study, for work, and for love – but the whole …
This poem was published in Caxixi issue n. 2, in March 2001. I found a copy in the FICA archives and it is just too good not to share! …
I love the way capoeira undoes everything that a desk job does to my body. Arriving at class, my back is stiff, my muscles atrophied, my eyes strained, my …
A dobrão is the thick coin used to play the berimbau, and mine had gone missing after our July 26 street roda. I had others at home… but for …
“Who are you?” a boy asked his father. The father replied, “I am the link between you and your grandfather.” There’s so much to learn in capoeira that the …
I’ve been making a list of the “key words” that Mestre Valmir and his students emphasize with frequency in the trainings. Here they are, as well as an explanation …
What to say about capoeira? I am LOVING it!!! Specifically capoeira angola, and (more specifically) capoeira angola with FICA. What I feel about regional/contemporânea (the capoeira style I used …
I just got back from sixteen awesome days in Salvador. Every time I go there (this was my third time) I find it harder and harder to leave. It’s interesting how people …
There is a persistent myth, widely believed among foreign capoeiristas, that Brazil is this magical capoeira paradise where people train all day and ginga down the street to the …
So after re-reading Nestor Capoeira’s Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game, Mestre Decânio’s A Herança de Mestre Bimba (The Heritage of Mestre Bimba) and Falando em Capoeira (Talking about Capoeira), one …