NEW CLASS

Pedreiro will be taking classes at Bar Lenuccia in Oval on Wednesdays from 7-9pm. Classes are £8.

NEW CLASS

New class on Saturdays from 2.30pm to 3.30pm at Latchmere Leisure Centre (DLC Leisure) in Wandsworth. All levels are welcome. Come along to get in shape for Autumn!

Location:- Burns Road, (off Latchmere Road).
Battersea, Greater London, SW11 5AD
(Look it up on Google Earth.)
Cost:- £10.
Buses: 44,345,319,344,49
Tube: Vauxhall, Clapham Common, Clapham North
Train: Clapham Junction,Battersea Park, Queenstown Road
Telephone:
020 7207 8004

Roda in Salvador, Terreiro de Jesus

This is the roda Mestre Lua Rasta has been organising for several years on the Terreiro de jesus, in the Pelourinho on Salvador, where traditionnaly many street capoeira rodas happened. You will notice the saxophone in the back, it is not uncommon for those rodas to have diverse intruments.

NEW CAPOEIRA CLASS IN ELEPHANT AND CASTLE

Dear all,

Here is the information on Pedreiro's new class for Tuesday evenings at the Siobhan Davies Dance Studio.

Dates: Tuesdays 8th Sept to 8th December
Time: 8 pm to 9 pm
Cost: £84 for the whole 14 week course or £7 per class (drop-in)

Address: Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George's Road, London, SE1 6ER.
(Near Elephant & Castle Tube)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7091 9650
Fax: +44 (0)20 7091 9669
Email: info@siobhandavies.com
Website: www.siobhandavies.com

The studio has a Harlequin dance floor so we will need to play in bare feet. (No shoes in the studio.)
People can pay by cash or cheque but the studio will make an additional 2.5% administration charge if people want to pay by card.

The class is limited to 20 people but people can book by telephone then pay when they arrive.

Bookings: Telephone 020 7091 9650

BLOG: capoeirapedreiro.blogspot.com
MOVIES: youtube.com/CapoeiragemBaiana

Pedreiro will keep the Roda at Ferndale on Monday nights so don't hesitate to take advanatge of those two opportunities.

Hope to see you there.

Raymond.

Pierre Verger

...French photographer who ended up living in Bahia for the last fifty years of his life, travelling intensively to Africa, exploring the relationship between candomblé in Bahia and voodoo in Bénin (basically it's the same thing).
He took some of the best capoeira photos in the forties showing how it was before it became organized by the different academies (Pastinha, Bimba etc)
Check out the Fundaçao Pierre Verger's webiste, it's full of hidden gems.

here is some of his photographic work put in video


Here is a great little film that he seemingly produced about carnival in the forties based on a series of photos that he took in Rio in 1941, Pernambuco 1947 and Bahia in 1948



it's in French, hit me up if you want more info ...:)

Mestre Ciro de Joao Pequeno de Pastinha

Another good surprise on Youtube, a great intimate video of Mestre Ciro, a former student of Mestre Joao Pequeno, himself a former student of Mestre Pastinah, singing one of his songs on the guitar.



Just a moment to relax...

how many capoeiras can you name?

In case you didn't notice a while ago I posted a poll with multiple questions asking what the definition of capoeira was.

I guess there is no right answer to that question, but in this particular case, all the answers could be found in Waldeloir Rego's seminal "Capoeira Angola Ensaio Socio-Etnografico" (1968). There's actually a whole chapter (chp 2) dedicated to the question.

Amongst the many definitions compiled in this book one can find:

- a basket made of sticks where birds like hens and other birds are kept

- an old carriage

- a brace (tipoia)

- the excavation at the bottom of a well

- wood that was cut down (a clearing)

- a sort of athletic game

- a bird also known as Uru

and others..