 
Capoeira Angola – Dance, music and Afro-Brazilian martial arts with Mestre Braga
Capoeira is both a dance and a martial art, with deep roots embedded in its African heritage. Its beginnings date back to the arrival of the first Bantu slaves in Brazil. In its traditional form, Capoeira developed a technique of movements that combined ancestral rhythms and the necessity of a camouflaged physical struggle in response to Portuguese slavery. In order to protect themselves and organise their resistance, certain groups of black rebels would meet in clearings within thick forests, where a grass called capoeira grew.
Capoiera is a game of movements that retell this part of Brazilian history through physical expression and song, which is accompanied by the famous musical arc known as the berimbau.
Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Mestre Antonio Braga is a member of the famous Capoeira Angola school run by Mestre Pastinha in Salvador de Bahia. He was initiated into the school in 1970 by Mestre Moraes of Salvador. He then continued to develop his dancing by founding the Capoeira group Angola Africa Banto.
He has already organised many training workshops and dance demonstrations, not only in Brazil but also in the United States, Denmark, Netherlands, and Germany, as well as in Geneva, where he is now based.
PLACE & TIMETABLE :
Monday, 19h30 - 21h30 : Beginners : Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie - 10, rue de Montbrillant - 1201 Geneva
Mercredi, 20h - 22h : Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie - 10, rue de Montbrillant - 1201 Geneva
Friday, 20h - 22h : Multatuli - 16-18, rue de Montbrillant - 1201 Geneva
FEES :
200 CHF / quarter (collective workshop ) -Reductions for the unemployed
CONTACT :
T : +41 (0) 78 914 89 69 
Email : nevesbraga1@bluewin.ch
 
                  
                
          2 WORKSHOPS: les Aoédé et les Chaga
Sylvie Zahnd
The Chaga, a workshop based on the same system as the Aoédé.
Les Aoédé is a small group of women brought together by the desire to explore and blend their voices in a friendly and benevolent atmosphere.
WORKSHOP
Frank Kane
The Republic of Georgia has a rich and varied tradition of polyphonic singing that is at least 1000 years old. The folk songs are an oral tradition and include genres such as work songs, wedding songs and healing songs.
Lakshmy Natarajan
Carnatic music is considered one of the most ancient music systems in the world. It is a learned music that is full of emotion and involves a lot of improvisation.