Movement for Changing :: The Capoeiragem Conference 2011

- 1st, 2nd and 3rd of July -

The Capoeiragem Conference 2011 will introduce and pay homage to two Capoeira great masters - Mestre João Grande, from Bahia Capoeira old guard, and Mestre Gato, from Grupo Senzala, Rio de Janeiro. As a meeting point for the European Capoeira community, it will also serve as a perfect platform for exchanging knowledge and experience. And we won’t just be thinking about ourselves either: the event will also fundraise for BIDNA, a very worthwhile charitable organisation using Capoeira to help children in the Middle East.

CORRECTION: CONFERENCE WILL HAPPEN AT THE PETCHEY ACADEMY - 1st, 2nd and 3rd July

REGISTRATION:

We strongly recommend early registration and payment as there are limited spaces available and demand is very high.  All should secure your place at this ground-breaking event.

:: PROMOTIONAL PACKAGE FOR GROUPS (3 Days):

We are asking all the the teachers, masters, monitores, professores, leaders, students of capoeira to support this important event. You and your student’s presence will be valuable to all the efforts we are putting into the organization of this event.  Please, note that all teachers can take part of the whole event free of charge, so please support us by encourage your students to take part, see below for discounts rate. this promotional package is addressed to all the Capoeira Group leaders in the UK or abroad in order to facilitate you to come with your students to the event as we are making an effort to make it affordable to all the community and friends.

Groups of 5 to 9 students from any Capoeira School will be receiving 25% disccount.
Groups of 10 or more students from any Capoeira School will be receiving 30% disccount.

. £100 will drop down to £75 (5 to 9 students)
. £100 will drop down to £70 (10 or more students)

IMPORTANT: Please, send list and names and specify your group sending us a email with all this info.

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:: PROMOTIONAL PACKAGE FOR INDIVIDUALS (3 Days)

£80 (before the 30th May)
£90 (before 15th June)
£100 (after 15th June)

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Days:

:: FRIDAY – 1/07/11
price: £30
Location: Petchey Academy (Kabula Arts)
Shacklewell Ln. E8 2EY

:: SUNDAY  - 3/07/11
price: £50
Location: Petchey Academy (Kabula Arts)
Shacklewell Ln. E8 2EY

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Location: Petchey Academy / Kabula Arts venue Shacklewell Ln, London E8 2EY

(note that due to problems with Dance Attic Studio’s timetable the 3 days of the Conference will take place in Petchey Academy from the 1st to the 3rd July)

6:30pm - Opening

Registration followed by invited Masters introduction to the Conference participants: Mestre João Grande and Mestre Gato and all the special guests.

7pm till 7:50pm – Lecture with Dr Matthias Röhrig Assunção* (University of Essex):

The Angolan Roots of Capoeira. Presentation of a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)*.

Lecture will be followed by BIDNA Capoeira Project film screening

8:10pm till 9:30pm - opening Roda with special guests.

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2/07/11

Location: Petchey Academy / Kabula Arts venue Shacklewell Ln, London E8 2EY

10am – Registration and introductions and reading of the Conference program

10:30am to 12pm - Mestre Joãozinho warm up and Maculelê Workshop

12:15 to 2:15pm - movement workshop with Mestre João Grande **

12:15 to 2:15pm - movement workshop with Mestre Gato ** (M. Gato will also talk about Capoeira teaching methodology)

** half of the participants with each Master

Workshop will be followed by 20 min Q&A

2:15 - Lunch Break

3pm to 3:45pm - Round Table: Capoeira and Change

BIDNA Capoeira board, Mestres João Grande,  Gato, Joãozinho, Carlão,  Ponciano and more to come!

4pm to 5:50pm – movement workshop with Mestre João Grande **

4pm to 5:50pm - movement workshop with Mestre Gato**

** half of the participants with each Master

Workshop will be followed by 20 min Q&A

6:10pm to 8pm - Roda de Capoeira

(participants only)

9:30pm - Party with Pé-de-Juremá Band, playing Cocô, Maracatú, Ciranda, Capoeira and more!

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3/07/11

Location: Petchey Academy / Kabula Arts venue Shacklewell Ln, London E8 2EY

10:30am - Registration

11am to 12pm - Musicality in Capoeira with Mestre João Grande

(Bring your berimbau as we will not be able to provide it to everyone)

12:10pm to 1:40pm - Movement workshop with Mestre Gato (M. Gato will also talk about Capoeira teaching methodology)

1:40 to 2:10pm – Lunch Break

2:10pm to 3:40pm - Movement workshop withMestre João Grande

3:50 - Interview with Masters João Grande and Gato – talking to the Capoeira Community

4:20 to 6:30 - Final Roda de Capoeira

Goodwill to all participants, capoeira Masters and teachers

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Please, check informations every week before the event as it’s info still provisional. The complete information will come to www.kabula.org and to the partners websites soon.

For booking and further info contact info@kabula.org or call 07930076149

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Groups Leaders confirmed so far:

Mestre Joãozinho & Suzannah  – Marazul Capoeira London and Moçambique
Mestre Pedreiro
Mestre Polaco – Grupo Sao Jóse dos Carpinteiros
Mestre Poncianinho – CDO London
Mestre Axé – Grupo de Capoeira Palmares London
Mestre Maxwell – Ilê de Capoeira Swansea
Mestre Caboclinho – Capoeira Ceará
Contra-Mestre Pedro Gatuno – Senzala England
Contra-Mestre Rodrigo – ACER London
Monitor Madeira – Grupo Muzenza London, Kent Aberdeen
Prof Rilene – Grupo de Capoeira Amazonas
Pro. Rejane - Grupo de Capoeira Amazonas
Prof. Boneco - Grupo de Capoeira Amazonas
Prof. Toca – GCAL
Prof. Pauliana – Grupo de Capoeira Amazonas
Prof. Alex Erwin – M. Marrom Capoeira e Alunos
Instrutor Marcus Cabeça – Axé Capoeira

and many more to come!

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Lecture: The Angolan Roots of Capoeira. Transatlantic Links of a Globalized Performing Art.

Our AHRC-funded research project explores several traditions in southern Angola, a region often identified as providing the ‘roots’ of capoeira because of the existence of instruments and movements similar to capoeira. There are several combat games, which use alternatively kicks, hands, sticks and other weapons, techniques that are also present in historical capoeira styles. The project explores the music and lyrics that accompany these performances, and related dances and rituals practiced in some villages belonging to different ethnic groups in that region.

The three-year project has started in June 2010, based on a preliminary exploration of the area in 2006.  A second field trip in Angola has been carried out in 2010 by an interdisciplinary team of historian Dr Matthias Röhrig Assunção (principal investigator, University of Essex), Capoeira angola Mestre Cobra Mansa (International Capoeira Angola Foundation -FICA), ethno musicologist Dr Christine Dettmann (University of Essex) and the Namibian filmmaker Richard Pakleppa (Online productions). Ethnographic fieldwork is further backed up by the specialist of Angolan history, Dr Mariana Candido (Princeton University), who explores historical documents in archives in Angola and Portugal. The collected data is used for the production of a documentary and scholarly analysis to be published in academic and non-academic journals.

The project assesses the extent of continuities, and borrowing, but also of ruptures, changes and re-inventions in order to understand the ‘creolization’ process through which different African traditions merged and developed into something new, original and global. Moreover, the project has employed fieldwork methods which involve people in a transcultural dialogue. For instance, performers in Angola have reacted in uniquely illuminating ways when faced with instruments, movements and music that are linked to their own traditions.

For more information, including downloads of publications and an interview broadcasted by Radio Nacional (Luanda), go to:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/history/research/Angolan_Roots/about.aspx