Announcing the Gingarte Capoeira Festival 2008

By admin • September 19, 2008

Professor Pele would like to announce the details of the Gingarte Capoeira Festival 2008 for the Candeias Dublin Group.

The event will take place on Wed 15th, Thurs 16th and Sun 19th of October. The venue for this years event is the Carmelite Community Centre and the Minor Sports Hall in DCU.

More details available here and on the calendar page.

All welcome, and looking forward to seeing you all there,

Professor Pele

Capoeira Random Quote

A venerable capoeira once said to me: "I wished to be a dancer and I could not be. Today I dance in capoeira. I wanted to be a fighter, so I fight in capoeira. Because I want to be an artist and express myself, have self-esteem, and be a real human being, I am a capoeirista." For us capoeiristas, the jogo do capoeira transcends each occasion of its actual performance and translates to every moment in the life. Capoeira is not a costume to be worn and taken off according to the situation or tournament. It is our own skin. We carry it all the time. We are cats, rats and monkeys, ferocious and gentle beasts in cavalcade through the many rodas of life. We are clowns, masters and slaves of the art who regain the freedom of ourselves only when cooked in the cauldron of Medea which is the jogo in the roda.
-- Mestre Accordeon