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.

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 ...:)

S8 footage of street capoeira performance in LDN

this is some of the first footage I shot in S8, of Pedreiro, Pastel, Dimola, Florence, Lula in London...




S8 film shot 8 frames a second edited in the camera on a music of Ja Morreu Filhos de Oxala.

A Capoeiragem de um Mestre e seu Bando Anunciador

Lua Rasta's "A Capoeiragem de um Mestre e seu Bando Anunciador" just won a prize at the ethnographic film festival in Recife. Congratulations! Cultura Viva




To buy the DVD, get in touch with Pedreiro

For more info about the film go to the blog
http://atelierluarasta.blogspot.com/

Photo on the Internet

It's crazy what one can find on the Internet. As I was browsing I once noticed this photo in an article related to capoeira in the streets (tried finding it again without success). It must have been taken nearly fifteen years ago.




It's a photo of Pedreiro, who'd just gotten back from the beach and was having a game of capoeira by the Elevador Lacerda in Salvador. He's looking slightly skinnier than today :) and is playing with Mestre Dois de Ouro, a great capoeira, who unfortunately is no longer with us.