Capoeira Arts Dance’s 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!
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.
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.
A world class master who 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 to over 10 countries.
Mestre Alegria have over 25 years of teaching experience.
Janete is a Dancer, choreographer, Performer and educator from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil with over 25 years of experience.
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.