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Maculélé Dance
Like the capoeira roda, maculélé is played in a circle that includes the dancers/players and the batería or drummers.
Making Cords
Making cords for the annual batizado is a long process. Professora Amazonas uses her ingenuity, adapting a power drill with a hook attachment to speed the process up.
Music of Capoeria
The heartbeat of the music of capoeira revolves around the drums and the berimbau.
One Step at a Time
Professora Amazonas begins making cords for GLDC’s annual batizado at least four months before the event. It is a long and tedious process to make the cords, not only because they represent hard work, dedication, responsibility, and community through…
Pandeiro
A pandeiro is a hand-held frame drum used in the music of capoeira and other Brazilian musical genres such as samba, coco, chore and more.
Pandeiro
Pandeiro, a type of frame drum, is one of the instruments used in the batería of capoeira.
Playing Capoeira
Students “play” capoeira in the roda, applying the skills and sequences they learned during their classes and training sessions. Every class ends in a Roda where all participating students have the chance to play in the roda and the batería.
Playing Capoeira
Members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira play capoeira one-on-one to train and practice specific sequences of movements of the class.
Playing Capoeira
Playing the rhythms and singing the songs of capoeira celebrating happiness.
Playing Capoeira - Halloween Roda
Members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira who attend children’s classes play in the monthly roda presented by Professora Amazonas’ academy.
Playing Capoeira in the Roda
Students in Professora Amazonas’ children’s class as young as three years old practice all aspects of capoeira, from training to music to songs to playing in the roda.
Playing Capoeira with Professora Amazonas
Professora Amazonas demonstrating capoeira movements with Rasta, a member of her class and Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira.
Playing Maculélé
Like capoeira, maculélé is an Afro-Brazilian dance form that disguises combat. Unlike capoeira, maculélé utilizes sticks and machetes in the combat play.
Playing Samba
Members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira studying and practicing the music, songs, and rhythms of samba.
Practicing Kicks
Capoeira is a martial art that is disguised as a dance form. Many of the combat movements used are kicks, which students in Professora Amazonas’ academy practice during classes.
Practicing Maculélé
Like capoeira, maculélé is danced in a circle. It also utilizes a similar arrangement in the batería.
Practicing Maculélé with Machetes
When training, students playing maculélé break from the circle to practice their dance/combat in pairs.
Professora Amazonas
Professora Amazonas working with a group of students in her children’s class.
Professora Amazonas
Professora Amazonas instructing the students in her adult class about the music, songs and rhythms of capoeira.
Professora Amazonas
Professora Amazonas of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira.
Professora Amazonas
Professora Amazonas of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira.
Professora Amazonas
Professora Amazonas singing and playing the pandeiro in the roda in costume.
Professora Amazonas - Berimbau
Professora Amazonas of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira instructing members of her adult class on the patterns played in the roda on the berimbau and how it affects the rules of engagement.
Professora Amazonas - Training
Professora Amazonas of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira training with students in her adult classes.
Professora Amazonas & Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira - Halloween Roda
Students from Professora Amazonas' children's class participate in the 2019 Halloween roda. These rodas are held on the first Friday of every month and are often themed for celebrations like holidays and birthdays. At these rodas, students have a…