Our Programs

Capoeira Kids Program

Capoeira kids program will give the kids the opportunity to learn a fun and successful art form
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Capoeira Adults Program

Our Adults Capoeira program offer a full body workout that combines martial art fitness, dance, rhythm and a lot of playfulness
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Afro Brazilian Dance

Brazilian dance is extremely rich and diverse in culture. It contains elements of African that blended and formed a unique and fascinating catalogue of styles.
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CAD Founders

Capoeira Arts Dance goal is to teach and promote Afro Brazilian Dance and Capoeira. We strive to create memorable, happy and empowering moments in every class! Through encouragement and hard training at our studio or performances and events, every day at CAD is tailored to be special and uplifting!

Leandro Silva (Mestre Alegria) was born in Bahia, Brazil. He began his Capoeira training at the age of ten years old with Mestre Jelon Vieira and has demonstrated and taught capoeira throughout Brazil, the United States and Europe. An accomplished, professionally trained dancer of various styles (Capoeira, Afro Brazilian, Modern, Ballet, Contemporary), Mr. Silva has toured the world for several years as a member of the highly acclaimed DanceBrazil dance company.

Mestre Alegria

Janete Silva is a Dancer, choreographer, Performer and educator from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She has studied dance since childhood and her professional training includes Afro-Brazilian Traditional dances, Ballet, Modern, Capoeira (a Brazilian Martial Art), Silva Technique (Fuzion of Capoeira and Dance) and Silvestre Technique.

Janete Silva

Capoeira Schedule

Afro Brazilian Dance Schedule

Capoeira

To someone looking at Capoeira for the first time in a performance or demonstration, the art will look like some sort of choreographed dance. However, this is far from the truth.

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art characterized by powerful kicks, fluid movements, music, and dodges called esquivas. Capoeira strikes involve the use of the shins, feet, knees, elbows, head butts, open-palms, and various sweeps. In 2014, Unesco designated Capoeira as an “intangible cultural heritage”, and today the art is practiced all over the world.

Afro Brazilian Dance

Brazilian dance is extremely rich and diverse in culture. It contains elements of African that blended and formed a unique and fascinating catalogue of styles.

The Afro Brazilian dance has a substantial movement vocabulary inherited from African ancestors through oral tradition. This dance style was first recorded in the composition of African religions. With time, it has gained new meanings and expressions and has also incorporated some of the native cultures. Agility and release of head, shoulders, arms, torso and hips are common points of movements, ranging from intense energy, sluggishness and sensuality. Bent knees and feet strongly marking the rhythm show the connection with the earth.

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