Join the WorldBeat Center for a Batisado, Roda and Food with San Diego?s Mestre Preto Velho, Dennis Newsome. Guest Mestres include Mestre Touro, Professor Jorge, Mestre Ephrain, Professor Albatross and Mestre Biquinho.
Capoeira is a martial art integrated with dance, ritual and gravity-defying acrobatics. It is marked by deft, tricky movements often played on the ground or completely inverted. Capoeira is always played with music and balances the body, soul and mind. It is a graceful and exciting art form that teaches you to be alert. Capoeira is both a dance and a fight, which asks that you engage your mind in learning its music, culture, history and knowledge.
Batizado literally means ?baptism." Besides being an initiation rite for new students, it is also a graduation ceremony for advanced students. It is a great capoeira community celebration including masters from near and far. The fraternity of capoeira is measurably strengthened by this camaraderie and interplay.
These ceremonies are a great chance to see a variety of different capoeira styles, to watch mestres play and to see participants play and perform after much perseverance and preparation.
Capoeira is usually done inside a circle of people called a ?roda,? pronouced "HO-DUH." The people in the circle are usually other capoeiristas waiting to ?play? as well as observers.
A roda will usually commence with a ladainha (litany), often sung by the most senior member present. These songs may be improvised on the spot, but are often famous songs written by an earlier mestre and sung in Portuguese. After the ladainha has been sung, the same singer will usually sing the chulas, which are usually made up of any of the lines listed in the chulas section below but, again, may be improvised on the spot. The chorus repeats each line of the chula after it has been sung. Finally, corridos will be sung while the game is playing. In most rodas anyone can sing a corrido, though most often they will be sung by the members of the group playing instruments, the bateria.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
WorldBeat Cultural Center
2100 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92101
Saturday, September 29 - 3:30 PM
For more information, please call: (619) 230-1190
Capoeira is a martial art integrated with dance, ritual and gravity-defying acrobatics. It is marked by deft, tricky movements often played on the ground or completely inverted. Capoeira is always played with music and balances the body, soul and mind. It is a graceful and exciting art form that teaches you to be alert. Capoeira is both a dance and a fight, which asks that you engage your mind in learning its music, culture, history and knowledge.
Batizado literally means ?baptism." Besides being an initiation rite for new students, it is also a graduation ceremony for advanced students. It is a great capoeira community celebration including masters from near and far. The fraternity of capoeira is measurably strengthened by this camaraderie and interplay.
These ceremonies are a great chance to see a variety of different capoeira styles, to watch mestres play and to see participants play and perform after much perseverance and preparation.
Capoeira is usually done inside a circle of people called a ?roda,? pronouced "HO-DUH." The people in the circle are usually other capoeiristas waiting to ?play? as well as observers.
A roda will usually commence with a ladainha (litany), often sung by the most senior member present. These songs may be improvised on the spot, but are often famous songs written by an earlier mestre and sung in Portuguese. After the ladainha has been sung, the same singer will usually sing the chulas, which are usually made up of any of the lines listed in the chulas section below but, again, may be improvised on the spot. The chorus repeats each line of the chula after it has been sung. Finally, corridos will be sung while the game is playing. In most rodas anyone can sing a corrido, though most often they will be sung by the members of the group playing instruments, the bateria.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
WorldBeat Cultural Center
2100 Park Blvd
San Diego, CA 92101
Saturday, September 29 - 3:30 PM
For more information, please call: (619) 230-1190
