Capoeira

Capoeira is a physical dialogue without words. It invites you into dance, combat, acrobatics, rhythm and music. A shared game with many facets. The focus is not on performance, but on the shared experience. We support adults on an individual basis.

Capoeira is a game of attack and defence: acrobatic and combative, cunning and teasing, yet also tender and loving. Where intuition meets mindfulness, creativity emerges between attack and defence, music and poetry, control and surrender. Capoeira is movement that unfolds, inspiration in the moment and relaxed attentiveness. Capoeira offers space to develop and express your personality. It sweeps you up and ‘enchants’ the moment: two players let their bodies speak with cunning, the music pulses, everything flows together — in trance, in joy, free. As a ‘blurred genre’ ( Citation: Lewis & Thompson 1992, S. 1 Lewis, J. & Thompson, R. (1992). Ring of Liberation: Deceptive Discourse in Brazilian Capoeira. Univ. of Chicago Press. ) , capoeira exists beyond conventional categories and offers freedom for individual development.

Capoeira for Children

Capoeira offers creative space to develop and express your personality. It sweeps you up and ‘enchants’ the moment: two players let their bodies speak with cunning, the music pulses, everything flows together — in trance, in joy, free. An ideal experience for children and teenagers. Movement and cultural education enrich life at every age.

Capoeira is an ideal tool for early motor and musical development. This culturally embedded practice moves between exciting stories, rhythm and singing, and intuitive movement sequences. Young children enjoy the excitement of the capoeira game and the undogmatic freedom of movement.

Capoeira - Körper, Flow und Erzählung im afrobrasilianischen Kampftanz

In his 2015 research, association co-founder and board member Christian Köhler-Warmbrunn describes capoeira in his publication. ‘Capoeira — the Afro-Brazilian martial dance sweeps you up and enchants: pulsating rhythm, hypnotic singing and players who let their bodies speak — beautiful, dangerous movements flowing into one another. Christian Köhler explores what lies behind it. What relationships do players enter into through capoeira’s psychophysical techniques? What role does the human longing for happiness play? How does the trance-like magic of the moment create a ritual that can turn everything towards the good?’ ( Citation: Köhler 2015, S. Einband Köhler, C. (2015). Capoeira. Körper, Flow Und Erzählung Im Afro-Brasilianischen Kampftanz. Tectum. )

His research and critical engagement with the globally expanding capoeira scene shape the association’s educational approach. The book was published by Tectum/Nomos.

History of Capoeira

Capoeira is a comparatively young discipline and only began to become institutionalised in Brazil in the 1930s. Since then it has been divided into the substyles Capoeira Angola, Capoeira Regional and, most recently, Capoeira Contemporânea. We take an approach that does not support this division and understand capoeira as a game that can be freely shaped. The term Capoeirâgem is sometimes used to distinguish this approach. The capoeira circle (‘Roda da Capoeira’), central to this game, was recognised as World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 2014; see the Wikipedia article on capoeira.

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