Black Shirt
By Antônio Luiz dos Santos Campos (Mestre Boa Alma). Miguel Camisa Preta, a nickname that can be translated as Michael Black Shirt, was a capoeira,…
Seven Crowns
By Rômulo Costa Mattos. The construction of the memory about Sete Coroas, the most famous “criminal” of the First Republic At the beginning of the…
There are women in the roda: Female empowerment in capoeira
By Letícia Vidor de Sousa Reis. Introduction We live in a country where violence against women is naturalised. Blaming women for the violence of others…
Muzenza Group
By Geisimara Matos & Matthias Röhrig Assunção. “Netos da Muzenza” because his students were, in the genealogy of capoeira, grandchildren of the founders of Muzenza…
Capoeira on the radio: André Lacé at Roquette Pinto
In 1963 André Lacé created the first radio programme dedicated exclusively to capoeira – Rinha de Capoeira, broadcast on Rádio Roquette Pinto. By Matthias Röhrig…
The Senzala Group and the capoeira safeguard
By Mestre Gato (Fernando Campelo Cavalcanti de Albuquerque). The Capoeira Circle and the Capoeira Masters Craft The Roda de Capoeira and the Capoeira Masters Craft…
Master Leopoldina – part 3
By Nestor Capoeira. The disciple I met Leopoldina in 1965, at the age of 18. He was 31 and, and despite being in great shape,…
Where did we go, huh!
By Julio Cesar de Tavares. Who would have been able to imagine, a century ago, that today, capoeira would be out and about in the…
Madame Satan
Madame Satã is a singular character in the capoeira universe of Rio de Janeiro. He represents, better than anyone else, the capoeiragem of the old…
Master Leopoldina – part 2
By Nestor Capoeira. Master Quinzinho (approx.1925-1950) was a dreaded and well-known young outcast in his day. Drauzio Varela, the doctor from the Carandiru Penitentiary who…