Mestre Carlão at Camden Town Street Roda
From the projects working with children and youth in deprived areas (Favelas) like Morro dos Prazeres in Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro and “Todo Dia São Domingos Project” in Niterói to The Royal Shakespeare Company; to the inmates of Brixton (London Prison), Austin and Seattle (USA) Juvenile Detention. And to local business, school and communities centers … to The Arcola Theatre and South Bank Brazil Festival; to Rio Carnival and Kabula Events, his workshops and performances are designed to inspire and motivate all.
Mestre Carlo Alexandre (M.S. Philosophy of Art) has being practicing Capoeira Angola since 1982 when he started with Mestres Marco Aureélio and José Carlos one of the few capoeiristas that Mestre Moraes titled in Rio de Janeiro – and Armando Teixeira Leão, also student of Moraes.
And also he started to learn “Pandeiro Brasileiro” with Percussionist Master Pedro Lima. Since that time, he has travelled the world with Capoeira and Percussion (Brazilian Pandeiro), starting in Martinique with the Colloque des Sincretisme Religieux du Caribe, and then on to projects such as the 1998 World Cup in France, conferences, festivals and workshops in USA, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Portugal, Denmark, Spain, India and many places in Brazil.
During this time, he started to make more frequent visits to the UK and the United States to begin forming a cultural bridge to Brazil establishing his organization Kabula – an Inter-Cultural Exchange of Afro-Brazilian practices, and is now in the process of registering as a charity organization in the UK as well as Rio de Janeiro.
Developing a unique style of teaching using the movements, theatre, philosophy, and music of the Afro-Brazilian art-form Capoeira, his workshops and classes are designed to reconnect and refine the creative and intuitive dimensions of our minds and bodies.
In addition, he has enabled members from Kabula to journey to Brazil and live amongst the Cariocas, where they have been introduced to other Mestres and specialists, and were invited to experience the spirit of the Rio De Janeiro Carnival that takes place once a year in February.