Capoeira

Capoeira in London

Reinventing the aesthetics of Capoeira

Posted on 09 September 2011. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

In recent decades we have noticed a significant increase in the production of fiction films and documentaries featuring capoeira. To be honest, the presence of capoeira in motion pictures of all sorts is nothing new, even though, in the past, it had been mostly limited to national productions and correlated to other themes of Afro-Brazilian culture. Continue Reading

Capoeira: the dance of slaves & kings

Posted on 22 November 2010. Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Created by African slaves in Brazil, capoeira combines the balance and flexibility of acrobatics with the grace and strength of dance, the speed and cunning of fighting and the rhythm of music into a powerful harmony Continue Reading

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MAY
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Fri
Two Roses for Richard III @ Roundhouse
26
Sat
Teresa Salgueiro @ Union Chapel
28
Mon
Esperanza Spalding @ KOKO
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Danza Contemporánea de Cuba @ Sadler's Wells
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Wed
Havana Rumba @ Southbank Centre

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Pinta @ Earls Court
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