Capoeira

The community of Starke has little to no extracurricular activities for kids. After school, kids are left to do nothing but go home, watch television, and be tiny couch potatoes. Therefore, it is only right that the community offers a program to not only get kids moving but also, teach kids valuable life skills and lessons. The community will offer a martial arts program called Red Dragon Academy to the youth of Starke. Teaching kids martial arts after school will help prevent bullying, teach kids

It’s called Capoeira, and it has changed my life. The movement of capoeira is poetic. It’s a sort of ‘cat and mouse’ type game. Two capoeistas (players) throw kicks and try to knock each other off balance, while constantly moving and dodging in such eloquent ways that they almost never even touch. This is played inside of a roda, a circle of capoeistas singing, lead by the mouth with a series of afro-brazilian instruments. The energy is palpable. During the 19th century, capoeira became illegal

Throughout history, dance has served as a form that performs and embodies the cultural values of the society it is in. The idea of dance varies within intellectual traditions and develops to a wider concept of movement practices within individual cultures. Dance can be looked upon as a culturally formed activity that offers information about human behavior in a certain society. Dance has also served to disrupt the cultural values in a society due to cultural evolution and cultural migration.

Capoeira is widely believed to have its roots in Angola with its original movements being based on a courtship dance known as “The Zebra Dance”. In this dance men would engage in fake fights in order to obtain the right to marry. The slaves in Brazil would use this ritual dance and transform it into a form of self defense. Eventually the slave owners would catch on and not allow the slaves to practice Capoeira for fear of resistance. This caused the slaves to transform Capoeira again and

combination of traditional dance, music, fight and flips provides a recipe for the Brazilian art form called Capoeira. While capoeira is a now a part of Brazilian national identity, it also makes up a strong part of Brazilian black identity (Robitaille, 2007). Capoeira was originally invented by African slaves, who used it as a form of self-defense and rebellion (Capoeira World, 2015). Although capoeira had been used as a form of combat, one of the main reasons the slaves created it was to protect their

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Xinjie Dai Anth 210 Comparative Culture Comparative Cultures Brazilian war dance called capoeira, is a 16th century by African immigrants being developed in Brazil, between the unique art of dance and martial arts between. Although the presence of hundreds of years, but until the later 1930s capoeira was officially allowed to practice granted spread among the people, because of this dance originated in Africa, but a considerable degree of integration of the cultural identity of the local indigenous

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These chance meetings, allowed her the opportunity to join and tour with Mastre Acetunio's Brazilian Dance Company "Fogo Na Roupa" and his Capoeira Company "Omalou Capoeira" for 3 years. She was also recruited by Master Casquelord as a dancer in his company "Fua Dia Congo", where she danced for 3 years until his passing in

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