Grupo Liberdade De Capoeira
Performances
Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira conducts interactive performances and workshops based on African influenced rhythms and dances originating Brazil.
Brazil is a region known for customs embedded in the traditions and spirituality of ancestral Africa.
The performance group executes works from Afro-Brazilian Folkloric Dances such as Capoeira, Maculele, and Samba.
All featured skits are accompanied by live percussion and traditional instruments and passports to an exciting and engaging performance.
Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira performing artists design programs to suit the needs of the audience and venue. The diverse group of musicians, vocalists, acrobatic dancers
adorned in elaborate and simple costumes conduct lectures, workshops, residencies and demonstrations of the African rooted culture of Brazil in the craving for and overcome of oppression of human rights. It features a performance of Capoeira, an Afro
Brazilian martial art that combines dance, music and acrobatics.
- Maculêlê is a dance with sticks, sometimes performed with machetes or even fire. Maculêlê originated in the sugar-cane plantation where the slaves, who used to practice the dance to relieve their anger against slavery. The slaves used sticks and machetes to rebel against the slave masters punishment, and practiced Maculêlê in preparation for the rebellion.
- Samba is a traditional Afro-Brazilian dance that has been associated with Capoeira for many years. Samba is a secular dance found throughout Brazil today. Samba is a very playful, sensual and flirtatious dance. Samba, known as Brazil’s ‘national rhythm,’ its prime symbol of cultural nationalism.