Category: culture
Orquestra de Berimbaus do Morro do Querosene
Orquestra de Berimbaus do Morro do Querosene I was searching for the different types of berimbau arrangements in the roda as a result of yesterday’s music class – The first one being gunga: angola, médio: são bento pequeno, viola: são bento grande + improv. when I found this website: https://dinhonascimento.com.br/orquestradeberimbaus/ Translation of first 5 paragraphs:…
Video Summary: A Liberdade Do Corpo – Roberto Freire
Video Summary: A Liberdade Do Corpo – Roberto Freire Mestre José Antonio posted this great video with Roberto Freire (SOMA’s creator, writer, psychiatrist, politician). It explains how Capoeira can be a weapon in the fight against authoritarianism and what he calls ‘modern white slavery’ (i.e. almost everyone living under the Capitalist system is enslaved) and…
Capoeira roda gets UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage status
26 November 2014 – Capoeira roda gets UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage status This has been long overdue – and today it has become official… The Capoeira roda is in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. One of the benefits this is expected to bring will be to give Capoeira mestres a…
Mestre Toni Vargas talks about Capoeira and playfulness
21 November 2014 – Mestre Toni Vargas talks about Capoeira and playfulness Interesting talk by Mestre Toni Vargas about Capoeira, fun and some Capoeira history… (in Portuguese with English subtitles) The ‘Abeiramar TV’ logo seems to be predicting a rather apocalyptic and wet ending to the planet though!!! I have talked about him before, as…
Mestre Nô – Norival Moreira de Oliveira
12 November 2014 – Mestre Nô – Norival Moreira de Oliveira In tonight’s class the salient point for me was when Mestre Poncianinho talked about the ‘tesoura’ – and how Mestre Nô was a master of the tesoura – and this video was mentioned, and there it is, at 50seconds, a very fast moving one,…