Capoeira Art For an Inclusief Wordl 2020
When Capoeira meets the Visual Arts Our current context of discrimination and oppression in our society, demands to pay attention to the cultural manifestations that liberate us from the colonial mindset. We, as collaborating artists, consider Capoeira as a tool for empowerment. Through this project we create an experience of empowerment of the soul through the awareness of the body and its energy. This is something facilitated through the mix between Capoeira and visual arts. This project is a collaboration between visual artists Maga Berr, Marie Hodge and Patricia Ribas, and Mestre Sidney Tartaruga. We invite everyone interested in the liberating movement of Capoeira to get involved in our artistic intervention. The method for creating this experience is inspired in Afro Brazilian cultural manifestations where there is an intersection between the spiritual, the body and the visual. Where the word Axe means light or spirit and Capoeira is an art that managed to empower ex-slaves from
