Students of Mestre Roque
Students of Mestre Roque is the most recent documentary produced for CapoeiraHistory. By Matthias Röhrig Assunção. Mestre Roque was among the first Bahian capoeiras to…
Brasiliana: Black Culture on Stage
Brasiliana: Black Culture on Stage (1949-73) By Juliana Pereira e Matthias Röhrig Assunção The Brazilian Folk Theatre (TFB) debuted in 1950 in Rio de Janeiro.…
Capoeira politics in Teresina, Piauí: lineages, federations and political parties
By Celso de Brito. Encounters and mismatches Capoeira from Teresina emerged in the 1970s and consolidated itself in the following decade with a series of…
In the “hippie era”: the rediscovery of capoeira in Pará in the 1970s
By Luiz Augusto Pinheiro Leal and Fabio Araújo Fernandes. The history of capoeira has for a long time been marred with myths. The most dangerous,…
Mestre Cosmo and his legacy to Piracicaba capoeira
By Letícia Vidor de Sousa Reis. Contemporary capoeira in Piracicaba has as its main representative Claudival da Costa, the late Mestre Cosmo, graduated capoeira master…
Capoeira in the parades of the blocos de embalo
Por Juliana Pereira & Matthias Röhrig Assunção. The blocos de embalo are carnival associations that do not compete in Rio de Janeiro’s official parade of…
Capoeira and Politics – Contemporary Capoeira
By Carlos Eugênio Líbano Soares. The party of order and disorder: capoeiras and the political struggle at the imperial court of Rio de Janeiro 1870-1890…