Category: capoeira
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Mestre José Antônio songs
A few of Mestre José Antônio’s (Barracão Da Capoeira) beautiful songs. No canto da Iúna Sela a ventania Simbora meu mano Deixa meu gunga dizer Limoeiro de sinhá Olha o balanço das ondas Canarinho Cantador Lavadeira de Maré Meu Barracão Engaço Vaqueiro Malvado Eu já vou me embora (Minha Senhora) No canto da Iúna…
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Lelé Capoeira coming at you from new domain!
Dear readers/subscribers, Due to major server issues (too slow, too unreliable) I had to move to a new server. I also finally got a better domain name!!! From now on this site lives at the aptly named lelecapoeira.com domain. Hopefully you should all still get new posts emails as before – if you got an…
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Peleja de Riachão Com o Diabo – Leandro Gomes de Barros
Peleja de Riachão Com o Diabo – Leandro Gomes de Barros (Literatura de Cordel) Sections of this epic poem from literatura de cordel have been incorporated into Capoeira, where Riachão and the Devil (diabo) have a defiant dialog/word battle : Mestre Traíra – Riachão do Diabo and Sílvio Acarajé amongst others… Leandro Gomes de Barros…
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RIP Mestre Boa Voz
20 April 2023 – Mestre Boa Voz Last night, during our Capoeira class, Mestre Poncianinho told us that Mestre Boa Voz had passed away and talked a little bit about his music. We started playing two by two with a song of his that we all know so well and love: “Lenda Viva (aka Mandei…
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chatGPT and Capoeira questions
Well… I had to try! Depending on who you ask, chatGPT could bring the demise of the job market and a world controlled by robots or the dawn of a new era, where boring, repeatable jobs can be done by AI, while us bio humans get to do the creative work and have more leisure…