Capoeira Senzala - Maculelê
Performing arts
cultural arts
capoeira
Brazil
folkloric
music
Members of Capoeira Senzala perform the dance and music of the Afro-Brazilian Maculelê tradition at the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018 in Highland Park, NJ. The sticks are struck together in rhythm with the drums.
Nicole Wines
07-14-2018
Deborah Wang
Andrea Placidi
Lena Marchese
Chadwick Antonio Rawlings
Vitaliy Espião Senzala
Mestre Zumbi
Jean Vieux
Ryan Wilson
Randy Chapa Braithwaite
Melissa Dendê Santana
Levi Cacique de Ramos Guerrero
Lena Marchese
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Highland Park, NJ
Sapulha Senzala
Performing arts
cultural arts
capoeira
Brazil
folkloric
music
Sapulha Senzala of Capoeira Senzala playing pandeiro during the Maculelê segment of the group’s performance in the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series in July 2018.
Nicole Wines
07-14-2018
Sapulha Senzala
Jean Vieux
Mestre Zumbi
Lena Marchese
Andrea Placidi
©Raíces Cultural Center
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Highland Park, NJ
Dancing before the Drum - Maculelê
Performing arts
cultural arts
capoeira
Brazil
folkloric
music
Capoeira Senzala shares the Afro-Brazilian tradition of Maculelê in Highland Park, NJ as part of the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Nicole Wines
07-14-2018
Melissa Dendê Santana
Deborah Wang
Ane Ta
Mestre Zumbi
Jean Vieux
Randy Chapa Braithwaite
Sapulha Senzala
©Raíces Cultural Center
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Highland Park, NJ
Fighting with Machetes
Performing arts
cultural arts
capoeira
Brazil
folkloric
music
Ryan Wilson of Capoeira Senzala performs the Afro-Brazilian Maculelê with machetes.
Nicole Wines
07-14-2018
Ryan Wilson
Levi Cacique de Ramos Guerrero
Sarah Pedrita Town
©Raíces Cultural Center
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Highland Park, NJ
Maculelê
Performing arts
cultural arts
capoeira
Brazil
folkloric
music
The strikes of sticks and machetes in the Maculelê dance match the rhythms of the drums.
Nicole Wines
07-14-2018
Chadwick Antonio Rawlings
Ryan Wilson
Sarah Pedrita Town
Deborah Wang
Andrea Placidi
©Raíces Cultural Center
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Highland Park, NJ
Maculélé
Capoeira (Dance)
Student preparing to dance maculélé, an Afro-Brazilian dance form closely related to capoeira. The history maculélé is closely related to honoring the workers of the sugarcane plantations of Brazil, with the movements of the dance reflecting the movements of these enslaved workers.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Children’s Class - Maculélé
Capoeira (Dance)
Students preparing to dance maculélé, an Afro-Brazilian dance form closely related to capoeira in Professora Amazonas’ children’s capoeira class.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Maculélé - Machete
Capoeira (Dance)
Similar to capoeira, maculélé is a martial arts and dance combination, which uses sticks and machetes to not only fight, but also keep the rhythm. Students in Professora Amazonas’ class use plastic machetes to learn, practice and play.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira Children’s Class - Maculélé
Capoeira (Dance)
Professora Amazonas students dancing maculélé, an Afro-Brazilian dance form. This movement in the dance is a collective tribute to the ancestors.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Practicing Maculélé
Capoeira (Dance)
Like capoeira, maculélé is danced in a circle. It also utilizes a similar arrangement in the batería.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
Professora Amazonas
©Raíces Cultural Center
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Batería - Maculélé
Capoeira (Dance)
In Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira, all students learn, study and play the musical instruments featured in the variety of forms taught and practiced in classes and training.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
Professora Amazonas
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<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Playing Maculélé
Capoeira (Dance)
Like capoeira, maculélé is an Afro-Brazilian dance form that disguises combat. Unlike capoeira, maculélé utilizes sticks and machetes in the combat play.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Maculélé - Drum
Capoeira (Dance)
Youth student of Professora Amazonas playing the drum patterns for students practicing the maculélé movements.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Maculélé - Agogô
Capoeira (Dance)
Youth student of Professora Amazonas playing the agogô for students practicing maculélé.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Dancing Maculélé
Capoeira (Dance)
Students practice maculélé, an Afro-Brazilian dance form closely related to capoeira in Professora Amazonas’ children’s capoeira class.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
Professora Amazonas
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Maculélé Dance
Capoeira (Dance)
Like the capoeira roda, maculélé is played in a circle that includes the dancers/players and the batería or drummers.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Machetes
Capoeira (Dance)
Student dancing with plastic machetes, practicing the Afro-Brazilian dance/combat form of maculélé
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Practicing Maculélé with Machetes
Capoeira (Dance)
When training, students playing maculélé break from the circle to practice their dance/combat in pairs.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Maculélé
Capoeira (Dance)
Students in Professora Amazonas’ children’s class dancing maculélé, an Afro-Brazilian dance form closely related to capoeira.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
<span><a class="in-cell-link" href="http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/id/21" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade</a></span>
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Dancing Maculélé
Capoeira (Dance)
Students dance maculélé in a circle, using their sticks to keep rhythm along with the drums.
Nicole Wines
10-09-2019
©Raíces Cultural Center
Collection: Capoeira - Grupo Liberdade
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Vauxhall, NJ, USA
Mestre Zumbi & Grupo Senzala de Capoeira - Maculelê - Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018
Maculelê is an Afro-Brazilian art form that is part of the practice of capoeira. Maculelê can be practiced with either machetes or sticks, which when struck together become a part of the rhythm and music.
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Mestre Zumbi & Grupo Senzala de Capoeira presented and shared their knowledge of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ. The purpose of this concert series was to bridge cultures through the universal language of music and to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster relief and recovery in Puerto Rico.
Raíces Digital Archive Collection of the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018:
http://raicesculturalcenter.org/digital-archive/collections/show/16
About Mestre Zumbi
Mestre Zumbi began training Capoeira at the age of nine in his native home of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has participated in countless workshops, performances and exhibitions the world over. His journey brought him to the United States in 2000 where he has since taught in numerous schools and universities throughout New York and New Jersey. In 2002 Zumbi became the official Capoeira instructor at Princeton University, founding a program that has been met with a great deal of enthusiasm within the university community. Since that time he has continued his work in the states, founding programs in both Manhattan and Newark.
About Grupo Senzala de Capoeira
Founded in 1963 in Rio de Janeiro, and in 1999 on the East Coast of the United States, Senzala is rooted in the history of Capoeira. Principles of community, respect and teamwork are present in all aspects of our work.
Grupo Senzala de Capoeira is one of the world's oldest Capoeira schools. Its origins go back to Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s. Since then, the school’s pedagogy has expanded to many different countries, opening branches throughout the world. The group plays a very important role in the educational process of Capoeira by working with different social and educational institutions such as kindergartens, schools, universities, and community centers in Brazil and around the globe. Grupo Senzala de Capoeira is an immense network that has been inspiring thousands of people from different walks of life for five decades.
About the Capoeira Cultural Center
The Capoeira Cultural Center (CCC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit partner of Grupo Senzala de Capoeira, founded by Mestre Zumbi in 2002. The mission of the Capoeira Cultural Center is to foster cultural citizenship and community building through arts education. Specifically, our efforts focus on producing high quality, accessible, creative opportunities in the Brazilian art of Capoeira, and in multicultural and multidisciplinary arts. The Capoeira Cultural Center was originally founded to uplift Brazilian culture, and has since grown to unify cultures via a global view. The cultural geography of Brazil and the Americas are inherently diverse and complex. As a result, valorizing cultural diversity & expanding access are central to all of our programs.
Visit Capoeira Senzala's Website:
https://www.zumbisenzala.org
http://youtu.be/mZPWadU7m3g
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