Accompanied Literary Society presents CAPOEIRA LEGADOS

Short film by Arden Wohl celebrating the launch of The Saga of Mestre Bimba, published by Capoeira Legados. Tribeca Grand, New York.

Special Thanks to Mestre Acordeon, who generously provided the music for the short film.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Accompanied
• literary
• society
• Arden
• Wohl
• alexander
• olch
• brooke
• geahan
• mestre
• bimba
• regional
• capoeira
• tribeca
• brazil

[GriNGoLocoTe]

@ketleylilian: So know I have to be brazillian to comment about capoeira. Right. And I do practice capoeira, and this video doesn't show anything about the sport and brazilian culture. So suck it.

[ketleylilian]

Parabens Mestre Glauber, Mestre Zumbi, CM Kiki, Pof. Loba, Prof. Morena e Inst. Bananeira. Muito Axe !!!!

[ketleylilian]

@GriNGoLocoTe I can see that you are not brazilian and that you don't know shit about what capoeira really is!!!

Just reading and doing capoeira does not make you a capoerista....do you even do capoeira?????? Your comments are so poor and out of place. It only shows how ignorant you are of our culture and our art. If you don't have nothing nice to say, don't say it al all. You don't have to like it, but at least respect it.

[GriNGoLocoTe]

@mirekcerny: Dude maybe you haven't seen real rodas, but they can get very violent. Not kill your opponent violent, but real damage. This happens with the better practitioners though. Of course it's more about a show of ability, but either way, it can get nasty.

[GriNGoLocoTe]

Well it's interesting seen in it's documentary form (the final video we are watching right now), but as a celebration of capoeira, I think it sucks. People there weren't watching an actual roda with instruments and people singing and practicing the basic capoeira traditions, they were just watching, in their own eyes, random people acting as fools, doing silly acrobatics with no sense or rythm and just disturbing the walk to their meeting. This is not capoeira at all!

[mirekcerny]

But what you wrote at the end makes no sense, how can we do the capoeira M.Bimba "showed us", when the basic motivation is completely different? Mestre Bimba wanted his capoeira to be a fight - and as you wrote, capoeira "for the new century" is anything else than a fight. So it seems to me that we are not as much celebrating his heritage as tossing it away and making our own.

[mirekcerny]

Doesn't allow? That's silly...I never heard of any mestre positively forbiding his students to fight. Most capoeira students can't and don't want to fight, but that's a different story.

[mirekcerny]

I know it. What about it?

[mirekcerny]

I don't dispute the point :-) I just think Mestre Bimba and his heritage would deserve something better. *shrug*

[mirekcerny]

Sorry people but this is really lame. It's contrived, theatral, you name it. It says this is done to celebrate the heritage of Mestre Bimba. But do you know that he despised the contrived "capoeira-pantomime" of his times? What do you think he would say if he saw this?