Capoeira Arte Antiga's favorite video clips

Mestre Suassuna e Mestre Cobra Mansa

2008-05-30T18:51:00.000-07:00

Academia de Mestre Bimba

2008-05-30T18:43:00.000-07:00

Académie de Bimba
Uploaded by Djino_bxl

Batizado in Lagoa da Saudade

2007-07-15T22:35:00.001-07:00

Meste Corisco e Mestre Barao

Roda in Lagoa da Saudade

2007-07-15T22:15:00.000-07:00

Mestre Corisco (Mestre Bandeira's Mestre) e Mestre Barao. Mestre Corisco is wearing jeans.

ASCAB Philadelphia

2007-07-15T09:02:00.000-07:00

Game and Samba de Roda

Mestre Leopoldina

2007-02-19T08:47:00.000-08:00

Mestre Leopoldina is a legend in the capoeira world, especially in Rio de Janeiro. This wonderful game is full of malicia and class.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2003

2007-02-13T06:24:00.000-08:00

Games with Mestre Doutor's students: Canguru, Gata Brava, Lobo Mau, Aranha

Mestre Bandeira vs. Mestre Cobra Mansa

2007-02-02T11:13:00.000-08:00

Mestre Bandeira plays Mestre Cobra Mansa in Portugal. An intense, serious game...

Mestre Doutor vs Mestre Ombrinho, Newark,NJ

2007-02-01T08:01:00.000-08:00

Roda at the Liberdade Academy in NJ

Mestre Doutor vs Professor Maranhao in Newark,NJ

2007-02-01T07:57:00.000-08:00

Roda at Liberdade Academy

Class Games: Borracha e Samurai

2007-01-31T08:42:00.000-08:00

Class Games

2007-01-23T20:30:00.000-08:00

Ca(ss)ula e Samurai

Black Light Capoeira

2006-12-30T08:38:00.000-08:00

Presentation with Mestre Doutor at Philadelphia Arts Center, September 2006

Mestre Curio

2006-11-20T08:48:00.000-08:00

Mestre Curio:
Mestre Curio has his school in Salvador, Bahia. He is the one dressed in yellow and black. I love his game, full of expression, humor and trickery.Mestre Joao Grande plays the lead Berimbau.

Roda na academia do Mestre João Grande em Nova York. Também estão presentes Curió, Cobra Mansa e Edna Lima.
Roda at Mestre João Grande's school, NY. Curió, Cobra Mansa and Edna Lima were also there. (from Teimosia-Youtube)

Mestre Curio plays two consecutive games with Mestra Edna Lima and Mestre Cobra Mansa.Mestre Joao Grande plays the lead berimbau.

Click here to know more about Mestre Curio and other great Mestres of Bahia.
Click here to know more about Mestra Edna Lima.

Mestre Neneu

2006-11-17T08:39:00.000-08:00

Mestre Neneu: a short interview with a reporter from Globo Network

Translation:
Commentary
The Associacao de Capoeira Regional, provides classes on a permanent basis to low-income-families children. Mestre Néneu teaches these kids with the seriousness of someone who has a mission. He is Mestre Bimba’s son.
Néneu:The person who is learning to become a teacher or a “mestre” one day, needs from the very beginning to know how to make his/her instrument, how to play it and pass what they have learnt to others.
The berimbau has an apropriate sound for each specific rhythm (toque). It is very important to know how to make your own instrument because we can make it the way we like it.
Reporter asking one of the children:
-- Is it for selling or just for practice?
-- Just for playing
Commentary:
Lázaro Rocha Jesus, or Bacteria, is a former street kid whose life has changed since he started taking classes with Néneu. He has spent enough time learning from Mestre Néneu now to be qualified to teach capoeira in Capoeira Schools.
Bacteria:-- It’s always been an issue with my mother, but today it’s different, she sees now that there is nothing wrong with it. Today I work with capoeira, I make a little money, enough to survive and help my mother, so she doesn’t criticize me anymore.
Reporter:Capoeira blends fight, dance and music. Capoeira Regional also uses kicks and techniques borrowed from other martial arts.
Néneu:-- Pretend this guy has a knife, a situation like that calls for an infinity of movements, my father used to teach us about situations like this. But today there are people who end up fighting in “rodas” and misrepresenting capoeira and others blame it on my father (Mestre Bimba).

Mestre Bimba

2006-11-09T08:15:00.000-08:00

Mestre Bimba: Short interview with Mestre Bimba (the sound is not very good, but Mestre Bimba's students are playing a good game)

Roda de Quintal

2006-11-08T09:33:00.000-08:00

Roda de Quintal/Backyard Roda with Mestre Doutor's students: Aranha, Gata and Lobo Mal

Mestre Canjiquinha

2006-11-07T11:27:00.000-08:00

Mestre Canjiquinha:
An interview with Mestre Canjiquinha about Capoeira Angola and Regional

Translation:
"There is only one capoeira, and with all my respect to late Mestre Bimba and his students, I wish I could play capoeira de Angola like Mestre Bimba did. Mestre Bimba started playing capoeira de Angola way before I did. So there is no such things as capoeira Regional and capoeira de Angola. There is one thing only: Capoeira. If you ask me to sing a capoeira de Angola song, I say I don't know. I did not learn capoeira in Angola, I learned capoeira here in Bahia, in Salvador. Mestre Bimba learned capoeira in Santo Amaro, he is a Capoeirista. Now, he was a smart guy, so he created the expression Capoeira Regional, after the region of Bahia, but Capoeira Regional does not really exist. Look, the berimbau is played in both capoeira Regional and Angola, we sing the same songs (cantigas) and play the same berimbau rhythms(toques). [...]All things considered there cannot be two styles of capoeira, not at all.

Mestre Doutor's Workshop

2006-11-05T18:59:00.000-08:00

Workshop September 2006. Mestre Doutor's Workshop in Chapel Hill(NC). Group Singing.

Workshop November 2006:
Primo vs. Batman (or Aranha goes wild)

Workshop November 2006:
Mestre Doutor and the WYN kids.

Mestre Bimba

2006-11-02T09:14:00.000-08:00

Mestre Bimba: Playing the Capoeira Regional Anthem/O Hino da Capoeira Regional

Mestre Bimba: Capoeira footage (vintage)

Mestre Suassuna

2006-11-02T09:01:00.000-08:00

Mestre Suassuna: miudinho game.
Mestre Suassuna created the miudinho game. He is playing the berimbau in this video segment.

Roda do Milenio

2006-10-27T10:02:00.000-07:00

Roda do Milenio (5 parts): I found these clips in Portal Capoeira , a very informative Capoeira website(in Portuguese)worth keeping in your favorites.

"The "Millenium Roda" at Terreiro de Jesus (Salvador, Bahia), in the end of 1999. A lot of mestres were there, including Nô, Curió, Pelé da Bomba, Moa do Katendê, Lua Rasta, Gigante, Gildo Alfinete, Cobra Mansa, João Bosco, Jogo de Dentro, Bocão."

"Roda do Milênio, realizada às vésperas do ano novo, no Terreiro de Jesus, Salvador Bahia. Muitos mestres estavam presentes, incluindo Nô, Curió, Pelé da Bomba, Moa do Katendê, Lua Rasta, Gigante, Gildo Alfinete, Cobra Mansa, João Bosco, Jogo de Dentro, Bocão e vários outros."

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Mestre Bandeira

2006-10-25T10:48:00.000-07:00

Mestre Bandeira: Mestre Bandeira is Mestre Doutor's Mestre, he teaches in Moscow, Porto and Santos. Also some games with Mestre Bandeira's students in Brazil.

Mestre Bandeira teaching ESQUIVA in Moscow.

Mestre Bandeira playing with Mestre Cobra Mansa

Mestre Bandeira's Group Arte de Gingar- Roda in Santos (Brazil)
Game with Contra-Mestre Caranguejo

Game with Professor Hulk

Game with Contra-Mestre Felipe and Fabricio.

Mestre Doutor

2006-10-25T09:55:00.000-07:00

Games with Mestre Doutor.

Mestre Doutor playing Mestre Ombrinho

Another short clip with Mestre Doutor.

Capoeira in Nike Commercial

2006-10-25T08:45:00.000-07:00

Apply your capoeira skills in a soccer game! A Nike commercial.

Mestre Bimba: Movie Trailer

2006-10-25T07:28:00.000-07:00

Mestre Bimba: A Capoeira Iluminada. Movie Trailer.