"Capoeira pregnancy in Africa and was born in Brazil"
"Capoeira is a liberation struggle that draws us from the chains of our interior and exterior" Wide with
Berimbau hear her, her tambourine and so feel Atabaque takes over our senses, Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian cultural expression that originated in Brazil, which encompasses many aspects. The best known is the martial art aspect or fighting, the musical aspect of body language, linguistics and oral side traditional facet.
Capoeira is a dance that hides a tremendous struggle full of joy, ritual, tradition and camaraderie, as was once said "is the art of fighting with teeth showing."
was in the "Senzala" (place where slaves lived and slept) which saw the first demonstrations of capoeira to the need for freedom who were these slaves, hiding the fight started dancing, so it is not vigilant banned. One legend says they were mixing existing movements seen in animals with malice that observed for whites. Applying this way to fight the slaves caused many revolutions in trying to escape, and some got. When escaping, they were organized into "Quilombos" that runaway slave communities were located in inaccessible places, where continued to practice capoeira.
time later, the targets were dismantling all existing brothels, including that of Palmares, the largest, which was practically an African city. That is why black people (former slaves) remained free as the slaves who had been released long ago, and come to the cities. That's where they soon organized into groups called malt (to the formation of these, apart from free blacks residing in the cities, helped by the abolition of slavery, which made many of the former slaves, to join the malts), which is dedicated to provoke disputes and other festivals public events, as well of the constant struggle and rivalry that existed between them. This was reinforced the marginal nature of this struggle, which made the simple practice is banned. The malts were used by the Mafia and were in hiding.
The year 1831 was marked by the terrible deeds of the malts and capoeira, they were even hired by politicians for extortion. Until then, the law punished practice of capoeira with 300 lashes and prison, but the biggest boom in the repression occurred when, in 1890, is instituted the deportation of those who practiced capoeira to the island "Fernando de Noronha.
malts were disorganized in Bahia when the war was called in Paraguay in 1864, while those of Recife only finally ended when the game turned to be "brincadeira" (for fun), around 1912.
From 1890 to 1937, capoeira was considered a crime registered in the republic's penal code, the simple practice of some movement of capoeira in the street was up to 3 months imprisonment.
was why, for the vision that was marginal in capoeira and the entry of Asian martial arts worldwide, so Manoel Dos Reis Machado, Mestre Bimba capoeira regional-created to save the reputation of the capoeira and to combat the practice mode of Asian martial arts. With the creation of regional capoeira capoeira try to create an environment in most sports, taking the malice and practicality as a method of improvement for the physical and psychic.
In 1953 the government then sent in Brazil "liberalization" of capoeira, after seeing an exhibition at the palace, and consider it "a genuinely Brazilian sport" (as Geúlio Vargas, then president). Thus all events Afro-Brazilian culture, emerge from the marginalization and as capoeira takes 2 roads or areas: - Angola (oldest capoeira, with much malice, whose greatest representative was Mestre Pastinha) - Regional (capoeira sport, holiday, acrobatic, whose creator Mestre Bimba was).
The National University of Colombia youth who practice this cultural expression in the Perola meet with joy and energy it takes to make this every day makes a difference, I remember when I began to attend workshops, observe costume carefully each actually almost everyone was equal, dressed in white from head to foot was the only mine that made the difference dressed in black sweatshirt, really I felt like a fly in milk, but it really was not much problem, to begin to manage their exercise, dance, play instruments and sing if at first slur his songs became a and pleasant experience much benefit in my life, I am aware that it is frustrating to do the impossible, going against your mother for doing what you think is suitable for your own life, to suit your tastes knowing the consequences that these will traer.En could actually capoeira is to create a bond of trust almost or equal to that of a family, create a daily activity of alert in every situation, I remember my capoeira teacher told us that not only vast to watch in the conference but also out because when we play the instruments we can surprise someone with an unexplained trip or fall, just a bad play was enough to show our attitude and knowledge with the topic.
