casa da capoeira - press release june 2010

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CASA DA CAPOEIRA

Casa Da Capoeira is South Africas first Capoeira academy. We have beentraining people for almost 12 years now. Our main goal has always been to

educate the South African public about Capoeira and to grow the support andstudent base/practitioners in the country.

Paulo Palinhos and Lucas Mthenjane started Casa Da Capoeira over 10 yearsago. Paulo is the only South African Capoeira Mestre/Master and Lucas is one ofonly three South African Contramestres (one level below master). Since 2009Steven Slotow has stepped up to join the leadership of Casa Da Capoeira topromote and build the brand in the South African environment. Numerous large-scale and high-profile performances have been organised through these effortsincluding, amongst others, an MTN group leaders conference and inclusion forSteven and one of his students in the Opening Ceremony for the World Summit

on Arts and Culture in late 2009.

The most recent show that Casa Da Capoeira has been privileged to be includedin is the Opening Ceremony for the FIFA World Cup Finals, currently being heldin South Africa.

For some media on our shows, please visit the links below:

MTN GLChttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPWwQoG97r0World Summit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24756071@N03/sets/72157623217464385/Sandton Street Fusion Soccer EXPOhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyVslITmnQA

Casa da Capoeira is a club with a very strong sense of unity we teach excellentCapoeira, encouraging individuality in our students games.

We have classes in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town with strongaffiliations to other legitimate capoeira schools in South Africa.

Philosophy of Casa Da Capoeira

We aim to deliver a life improving experience through capoeira, using the art asan education tool to create tolerance and acceptance. We do this by thefollowing methods:

Training the strength, flexibility and fitness component of the human body Actively pursuing the community/relationship aspect of capoeira Teaching the principles, culture and history of capoeira and interacting

with as many capoeira masters as possible

Website address Compiled by Steven Slotowwww.capoeirasa.co.za Casa Da Capoeira
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPWwQoG97r0http://www.flickr.com/photos/24756071@N03/sets/72157623217464385/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyVslITmnQAhttp://www.capoeirasa.co.za/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPWwQoG97r0http://www.flickr.com/photos/24756071@N03/sets/72157623217464385/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyVslITmnQAhttp://www.capoeirasa.co.za/


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Encouraging individual research into the history of Capoeira (whichcovers a very broad spectrum of World History focusing on the MiddlePassage and the general slave trade)

Taking Capoeira to the masses. Our involvement with CommunityUpliftment projects

Vision and Mission of Casa Da Capoeira

Our Vision and mission is to make capoeira a self sustaining entity in SouthAfrica and ultimately Africa. This is achieved through:

Professionalism in the execution of classes and dealings with the generalpublic

Community based approach Developed relationships with various national and international capoeira

schools and Masters Promoting the art in mainstream society through various interactions with

the media and public Developing relationships within the Martial Arts community in South Africa Promotion of up and coming senior capoeiristas to instructor level by

allowing them teaching time in a controlled environment. In addition,educating them on the process of running a class and business

The formation of AAFRICAP (African Capoeira Association) for all schoolsin Africa to work together.

Affiliation of academies to a world body FCDRJ Bi-yearly visits to Brazil for further training and education and participation

in International tournaments Regular workshops by Masters of Capoeira as well as gradings

What is Capoeira?

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines music, acrobatics,movement, dance, culture and above all fight. All these elements combine toform a unique art that has to be seen to be believed, that has to be practised tobe understood.

Capoeira is a question and answer game. Where questions will be attacks andanswers will be defences. The beauty of Capoeira is that it is practised as agame where strikes are compulsively kept to a minimum to allow the questionand answer conversation to continue. Really skilful players will want thequestions to have no answers, but the other person will (by way of skill)somehow deliver a question or answer to the impossible. An implied strike ismore respected than an actual strike as capoeira is seen as an educational tooland owing to its background, is understandable why.

History of Capoeira

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This is shrouded in mystery as most slavery records were destroyed afterthe abolition of the slave trade. It is thought that the roots of Capoeira are inAfrica, but Capoeira as it is known today is a typical Brazilian cultural practise.As Brazilian culture is an agglomeration of many different African cultures andsome European cultures, it is almost certain that Capoeira has changed or

morphed as per the cultural influences over many centuries.

Whatever its origins (a highly debated subject for many decades) it is undeniablethat Capoeira was a weapon used by the slaves against oppression. Today,Capoeira is viewed as a weapon of liberation, and as a weapon againstoppression.

For more information on Casa Da Capoeira, please feel free to contact StevenSlotow on 0825200444 [email protected].

mailto:[email protected]://www.capoeirasa.co.za/mailto:[email protected]://www.capoeirasa.co.za/

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