MIAMI CAPOEIRA - CAIS DOURADO
Capoeira is an Afro- Brazilian martial art that blends elements of ritualistic fighting, music, cunning and playful creativity with precision attacks and defenses, break dance-type floor movements and stunning acrobatics.
Participants don’t “spar,” they “play” Capoeira in a circle (roda) of clapping, singing “capoeiristas” who combine the vitality of song and dance with circular and evasive attacks and defenses.
Slaves brought from Africa to work on the plantations of Brazil started Capoeira in the struggle against their oppressors. They disguised the martial techniques from their masters by mixing them with dance during gatherings or ceremonies.
Though Capoeira originally took its shape in the bubbling cauldron of Brazil, it is gaining in amazing popularity throughout the United States, with hundreds of academies from coast to coast.
The roda is a celebration of life in the face of everyday struggle. It develops confidence, combined with a strong feeling of center and balance. Still truly evolving and much more than a “martial art,” Capoeira is an art-of-life, bringing together our best human resources.