24h Capoeira Roda – Summer 2010 (Update)

[ August 14, 2010 12:00 pm to August 15, 2010 12:00 pm. ] Salve Capoeira,Last year we had a challenge, to play capoeira for 24h. The result… A SUCCESS… We managed to hold a Roda for 24h without letting the Berimbau stop once. The roda started at 12pm on Saturday and ended at 12pm on Sunday.Because of the huge success of our first event, we will be doing [...]

Roda de Rua 2010 – Axé Capoeira Batizado e Troca de Corda

Come and celebrate Axé Capoeira Toronto’s 5th Annual Batizado and Troca de Corda!
Roda de Rua 2010 takes place throughout Toronto for three days in August.
Capoeira students will have the opportunity to participate in capoeira workshops with internationally renown capoeiristas and Mestres. Friends, family and supporters are invited to join us for one of our [...]

Semente do Jogo de Angola Toronto & Capoeira Angola Center Ori present AGÔ

A special week-long series of workshops, talks and rodas with Mestre Jogo de Dentro, from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
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Workshops will focus on the movements, strategy, music and ritual of Capoeira Angola. Capoeira Angola, sometimes called capoeira mãe or the mother capoeira, is often described as an older more African style of capoeira. Mestre Jogo de Dentro [...]

Capoeira Classes in the Park

During this amazingly hot Summer we will be having our regular classes in Christie Pits @ Christie & Bloor in front of the TTC Station and some other Parks (if so I will post them here). Unless of course if it rains in which case we will be back at the academy.
The class schedule remains [...]

GUC 27th Anniversary

Salve…
So that time of the year came upon us again… Where we celebrate the date when Mestre Umoi made the decision and started Grupo Uniao na Capoeira.
Celebrated all over the world, we too had our Roda full of AXE. Thank you to the students of Axe Capoeira and UNICAR.
And Happy Anniversary Grupo Uniao na Capoeira
Axe,
Prof. [...]

24h Capoeira Roda – Summer 2010

Salve Capoeira,
Last year we had a challenge, to play capoeira for 24h. The result… A SUCCESS…
We managed to hold a Roda for 24h without letting the Berimbau stop once. The roda started at 12pm on Saturday and ended at 12pm on Sunday.
Because of the huge success of our first event, we will be doing [...]

Raca em Movimento – 18th CT Capoeira Batizado

I would like to thank Mestre Efraim and all the students from Raca em Movimento for receiving myself and my wife Delicada with open arms.

This weekends event was very good, I had the opportunity to meet and play with so many new friends, and bring home more experience to share with everyone.

The list of participants [...]

NessaV – Aché

NessaV – Aché (Album Cover)
Meet NessaV, a Canadian-born Brazilian raised in Vancouver, BC. NessaV has trained in a variety of dance styles including Samba, African, hip hop and Capoeira. She has a professor level in capoeira and just performed 19 shows for the Olympic Celebrations throughout Vancouver with Ache Brasil! She has traveled to [...]

Thank You to Mestre Eclilson, Mestrando Dinho, Prof. Formiga and Instrutor Camara

I wanted to express my deepest thanks to the support and amazing Aché that:
Mestre Eclilson
Mestrando Dinho
Prof. Formiga
Instrutor Camara
Brought these past two weeks, even though they were doing 3 shows a day they found the energy to stop by and share their knowledge with us.
I wish them all a good trip back home to Vancouver and [...]

M-DO TTE Holliday Bazaar (Saturday December 19 2009)

Stroll down any neighbourhood in downtown Toronto and you can see, hear, smell, taste and sense the evolution of community. Here, evolution is the dialogue between the traditional and the modern, the past, the present, the future, the old and the new, each in turn informing and dancing with the other. This special WinterCity concert series is an intimate South Asian themed spectacle of music and dance, connecting ancient India with contemporary Toronto. Chhandam Dance Company members perform highly exacting Kathak north Indian classical dance in its traditional form, set in an environment of Indian splendor.