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Last minute change of class location!! We were just informed that the floors of the 418 are being refinished this week. So this week's classes are as follows: Tuesday August 31: Louden Nelson park 6-7:30 Wednesday September 1: Louden Nelson park 6-7:30 Thursday Sept 2: Pacific Cultural Center 7:30-8 (on the corner of Seabright & Broadway) About Capoeira Capoeira is a Brazilian cultural experience/martial art created by African slaves in Brazil as a form of self-defense and cultural preservation against the oppressive slave owners. It is "played" in a roda (circle) by two capoeiristas who exchange a spontaneous combination of kicks, offensive moves, acrobatics and floor maneuvers. While the capoeiristas in the center of the roda engage in a dynamic and intriguing "conversation," others forming the roda sing in chorus and clap to the rhythm played on the berimbau, the stringed bow-like instrument that leads the roda. The atabaque, pandeiro and agog? accompany the berimbau. Raizes do Brazil Capoeira was founded in 1980 by Mestre Ralil Salomao, in Brasilia, Brazil. Mestre Papiba began training with Mestre Ralil at the age of 16, and continued to train with him until coming to the U.S. in 1991. He arrived in Santa Cruz in 1992 where he began his own chapter of the school. Raizes do Brazil Capoeira, Santa Cruz now offers classes five days a week to over 100 adults, teens and children in Santa Cruz County. |
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