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Professora Amazonas foretelling the closing of the roda through song.

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Youth who participate in Professora Amazonas’ children's classes attend a monthly roda, often holiday inspired, like the annual Halloween roda.

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Children who participate regularly as well as guests who are former students are all welcome in the roda.

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Members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira who attend children’s classes play in the monthly roda presented by Professora Amazonas’ academy.

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Members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira training during Professora Amazonas’ holiday inspired rodas.

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Members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira practice the rhythms and songs of the batería before training and playing capoeira.

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Raíces Director Francisco G. Gómez plays with members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira practice the rhythms and songs of the batería before training and playing capoeira.

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The drums are the heartbeat and the pulse that runs through a variety of genres in the African diaspora, including in Afro-Brazilian capoeira.

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Abelha, a member of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira, leading the batería during one of Professora Amazonas’ classes.

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Berimbau, an essential instrument in the capoeira batería.

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Abelha and Rasta, members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira, playing in the batería during one of Professora Amazonas’ classes.

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Pandeiro, a type of frame drum, is one of the instruments used in the batería of capoeira.

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Professora Amazonas of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira sharing songs of capoeira with Raíces Director Francisco G. Gómez.

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Members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira led by Professora Amazonas playing capoeira and engaging the community at the 53rd Annual Harvest Festival of African Culture Kwanzaa Celebration.

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Professora Amazonas of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira in the roda with her students celebrating Kwanzaa at the 53rd Annual Harvest Festival of African Culture.

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In classes, presentations, performances, and in the roda, members of Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira always honor their history and the history of capoeira.

In Brazil, capoeira was once outlawed, to keep enslaved Africans from training their…

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Professora Amazonas at the 53rd Annual Harvest Festival of African Culture Kwanzaa Celebration at the Montclair Public Library.

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Grupo Liberdade performing and sharing the art of capoeira at the 53rd Annual Harvest Festival of African Culture Kwanzaa Celebration at the Montclair Public Library.

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Professora Amazonas plays the berimbau at the at the 53rd Annual Harvest Festival of African Culture Kwanzaa Celebration at the Montclair Public Library. The berimbau is the instrument that sets the rules of the game for capoeira.

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Grupo Liberdade participated in the the 53rd Annual Harvest Festival of African Culture Kwanzaa Celebration at the Montclair Public Library. The bateria plays the berimbaus and percussion instruments that provide the rhythm and music for the roda and…

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Professora Amazonas moving through the roda during Grupo Liberdades performance at the 53rd Annual Harvest Festival of African Culture Kwanzaa Celebration help at the Montclair Public Library.
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