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Capoeira (Portuguese pronunciation: [kapuˈe(j)ɾɐ]) is a Afro-Brazilian martial art and game that includes elements of dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality.. It is known for its acrobatic and complex maneuvers, often involving hands on the ground and inverted kicks.
The capoeirista who is dragged by a rasteira in a demonstration or a rabo de arraia or a joelhada or a balão boca de calças or a escoramento de coxa is considered defeated. The adversary is considered beaten if acknowledging his defeat immediately outside the demonstration. These are rules of capoeira angola.
The music video for "The Obvious Child" by Paul Simon features capoeira. This was the first single from Simon's album The Rhythm of the Saints, released in 1990. [21]The 2006 music video for "Mas Que Nada" by the Black Eyed Peas and Sérgio Mendes features several scenes of capoeiristas along with various Brazilian dance forms, [22] and Professor Marcinho playing.
He learned Capoeira with the legendary Mestre Aberrê (Antônio Raimundo). Mestre Canjiquinha was a shoemaker, lunch box delivery man, and a typist. Among other activities, he was also a football player (goalkeeper) for the Ypiranga Futebol Clube , as well as a bolero singer on Salvadoran nights.
Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (April 5, 1889, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil – November 13, 1981), known as Mestre Pastinha, was a mestre of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira and a codifier of the traditional capoeira Angola style.
Notably, Machado and Vieira performed capoeira demonstrations at public schools in the Bronx. [3] Master capoeira teacher Mestre Acordeon has said "[These] demonstrations by Mestre Jelon [Vieira] and Loremil Machado are considered by many to be responsible for the incorporation of capoeira movements into breakdancing". [4]
Capoeira, at its essence, is an expression of yourself, this no one can take away, the way in which you ginga. You can look into an academy and see that no one has the same ginga. The way one gingas is a label of where one learns, but later one loses all of this.
In 1975, Vieira and fellow choreographer/performer Loremil Machado became the first capoeira mestres to live and teach in the United States. [1] [2] Vieira states that their first jobs in New York were doing capoeira demonstrations in Bronx public schools [3] and that he spent the summer of 1975 doing weekly demonstrations in Central Park. [4]