Capoeira is not only a martial art, a dance and a game. It comes along with its cultural background, which developed in the Afrobrazilian circles of Brazil and spread all over the world. It’s like HipHop, or like Yoga. It left it’s national and cultural boundaries and spread to places where some parts of it’s culture [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 13, 2008
O menino quem foi seu Mestre?
Menino, quem foi seu mestre ?
Quem te ensinou a brincar
O teu mestre foi Besouro
Aprendeu com Manganga
Eu aprendi com Pastinha
Quero contigo Brincar
A capoeira de angola
A africano quem mandou
Na capital de Salvador
Foi pastinha que me ensinou
Na roda de capoeira
Reconheço esse valor
(M.Joao Pequeno)
At the 13th November 1981 Vincente Ferreira Pastinha, known to the world as Mestre Pastinha, died [...]
November 3, 2008
Mixing styles: Can you train both Angola and Regional?
This is one of the most controverse topics in discussions between Angoleiros and Regionalistas. And it is a question which is coming up more and more often since several groups claim for themselves that they a) practise both or b) that the dichotomy between Regional and Angola is artificial and thus, that they are training [...]
