Capoeira de Angola (Angolan capoeira) or simply angola is the traditional style of capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art. A newer style, based on the...
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According to the old capoeira mestres and tradition within the community, capoeira originates from Angola. Although the origin of capoeira is not entirely...
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participants used the name angola or the term brincar de angola ("playing angola") for this art. In formal documents, capoeira was known as "capoeiragem"...
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smoothness typical of a dancer. Angola and Regional styles in capoeira have distinctive versions of this movement. In Capoeira Angola, the ginga is more expressive...
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Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (redirect from Capoeira lineage under Mestre Pastinha)
was a mestre of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira and a codifier of the traditional capoeira Angola style. Mestre Pastinha was a brilliant capoeirista...
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legitimate and effective martial art. The base of capoeira regional is the traditional capoeira Angola without many of the aspects that were impractical...
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Engolo (category Capoeira Angola)
Angola, that combines elements of combat and dance, performed in a circle accompanied by music and singing. It is known as the forerunner of capoeira...
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with drumbeats or hand clapping. In 1818, João Angola was arrested for possessing a small drum at a capoeira gathering. Playing a drum could lead to severe...
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capoeira maltas, this style of capoeira is generally extinct. Contemporary capoeira comes from the traditional capoeira Angola, preserved in Bahia. In the...
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originally developed within the Angolan martial art engolo. Beside the engolo core, the sole major technique incorporated in capoeira was headbutting, derived...
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João Pereira dos Santos (category Capoeira Angola)
Mestre João Pequeno was capoeira Angola mestre and one of the principal students of mestre Pastinha. He began his carrier in Capoeira as a student of Mestre...
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Manuel dos Reis Machado (category Capoeira mestres)
from various martial arts. Bimba came from capoeira Angola, and taught Angola style. He reformed capoeira primarily in response to Burlamaqui and Sinhôzinho's...
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Mestre Noronha (category Capoeira Angola)
as Mestre Noronha (1909–1977) was one of the old capoeira Angola mestres, from the time when capoeira was an illegal martial art. Mestre Noronha was one...
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João Grande (category Capoeira Angola)
martial art of capoeira angola who has contributed to the spread of this art throughout the world. He was a student of the "father of Angola", Mestre Pastinha...
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Cobra Mansa (category Capoeira Angola)
Cobrinha Mansa, is a mestre of capoeira Angola. He is one of the founders and the guide of International Capoeira Angola Foundation, that supports 11 affiliated...
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Albano Neves e Sousa (category Angolan artists)
culture of Angola and Brazil. Neves e Sousa introduced the world to the Angolan martial art n'golo, which is considered the ancestor of capoeira. His engolo...
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1909. Rabo de arraia is very old capoeira technique, which was very popular in capoeira carioca and capoeira Angola. The same technique is found in African...
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Berimbau (category Capoeira music)
most common names are "Angola" and "São Bento Grande". There is much talking about the meaning of these terms. In capoeira Angola, three Berimbaus play...
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Angora wool. Capoeira Angola, a style of the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira Angola (Book of Mormon), a city in the Book of Mormon "Angola, Louisiana"...
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Pedro Moraes Trindade (redirect from Grupo Capoeira Angola Pelourinho)
legendary locations celebrated in capoeira songs, and was raised in Salvador. His father was also a practitioner of capoeira Angola, the traditional style of...
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Rasteira (redirect from Encruzilhada (capoeira))
a trademarks of capoeira. Like many other core capoeira techniques, rasteira was developed within Angolan martial art engolo. Capoeira sweeps can be done...
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Mestre Waldemar (category Capoeira Angola)
a Brazilian capoeira mestre and musician from the state of Bahia. He is considered one of the most artistic and skillful capoeira Angola players of his...
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Rabo de arraia (category Capoeira techniques)
traditional rabo-de-arraia in capoeira Angola. Scorpion kick with its variations, the traditional rabo-de-arraia in capoeira carioca. In Brazil, the rabo-de-arraia...
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Aú (redirect from Cartwheel (capoeira))
Pastinha, Mestre (1988). Capoeira Angola. Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia. Capoeira, Nestor (2007). The Little Capoeira Book. Blue Snake Books. ISBN 9781583941980...
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where the best finish is sixth. Angola is also often believed to have historic roots in the martial art "Capoeira Angola" and "Batuque" which were practised...
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Bênção (category Capoeira techniques)
Pastinha, Mestre (1988). Capoeira Angola. Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia. Assunção, Matthias Röhrig (2002). Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian...
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of capoeira Angola and one of the basic capoeira kicks. This kick may pose a learning curve for beginners. According to Nestor Capoeira, to perform the...
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Cartwheel kick (category Capoeira techniques)
cartwheel kick is known as the L-kick. Engolo, an Angolan martial art considered as ancestor art of capoeira, using multiple cartwheel kicks, including aú...
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radical new ideas of Wilhelm Reich, as well as the Brazilian martial art Capoeira Angola. Somatherapy (or Soma) was created by the Freire in the 1970s as a...
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Mestre Canjiquinha (category Capoeira Angola)
capoeira Angola mestre and a prominent figure in contemporary capoeira. He was one of the few mestres who didn't emphasize differences between Angola...
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