Category: culture
Capoeira: Afro-Brazilian Dance of Freedom Podcast
17th of September, 2021 Today Puma Camillê came to visit us @ Dance Attic!!! We had a very intense, unique and fun Capoeira/Vogue class and then a roda. 17th of April, 2021 I heard this podcast and it brought home the things that make me love Capoeira so much: the connection between body/mind and its…
COVID-19
London 26 March 2020 London has been on lock down since Monday 23rd of March 2020 due to the coronavirus, a particularly virulent strain, named COVID-19. As I type this schools are closed, supermarket shelves are empty, people are working from home, not working at all or are otherwise overworking to serve the lives and…
Asa Branca – Luiz Gonzaga
08 March 2019 Asa Branca – Luiz Gonzaga Asa Branca – Luiz Gonzaga Written in 1947, Asa Branca is one of the most well known songs in Brazil – I’d be surprised if there’s anyone there who hasn’t heard or doesn’t recognise the unmistakable introduction. By learning this song I also learned the baião strumming…
Moa do Katendê’s murder
First Published 09 October 2018Last Updated 05 November 2018 09 October 2018 Mestre Moa do Katendê, Romualdo Rosário da Costa, 63 years old, was stabbed in the back, 12 times in total, after an argument with Paulo Sérgio Ferreira de Santana, 36, at a bar near his house, on the night of the Presidential (and…
MAIOR É DEUS, GRANDE É JOÃO!
Support ‘Maior é deus grande é João’ João Oliveira dos Santos, Mestre João Grande (Master “Big John”), aged 85, the eldest living active capoeira practitioner in the world, is an icon of the traditional form of capoeira. Considered to be the master of masters by the capoeira community, he is a holder of secular knowledge…