Capoeira Mandinga Shanghai

Oi Capoeiristas,

Batizado is coming and our camara Adam prepared a cool flyer for the massivities on Saturday 11th, so don’t waste time and invite your friends to our Troca de Cordao and Latina Party: Maculele, Coco, Roda… 170 RMB all you can eat delicious bbq and 2 free caipirinhas!

You can download the e-flyer here

Visiting capoeiristas, please confirm your attendance to: capoeirashanghai@yahoo.com

Axé!

上海卡波耶拉巴西战舞特训及升级考试2010年通告

亲爱的朋友们：
我们的卡波耶拉巴西战舞升级考试与Batizado节将在九月份的10号（周五），11号（周六）和12号(周日)举行。

已经确认参加今年活动的贵宾包括：
- 我们的马赛洛大师，卡波耶拉曼丁加的创建者。
- Mestre Espirro Mirim, Cordao de Ouro Tucson
- Contra Mestre Espeto, Capoeira Forca da Arte Osaka
- Contra Mestre Cipó, Capoeira Mandinga Mexico Cuernavaca

活动日程安排：

周五 20:00-22:00，武夷路上的星之健身，特训
周六 11:00-18:00，武夷路上的星之健身，特训及升级考试
周六 20:00之后，在徐家汇的 Latina餐厅，庆祝聚会，（170人民币每人，随意自助餐）

费用：
卡波耶拉曼丁加的学员：人民币1000元，如果在8月31日前付款则优惠为900元
卡波耶拉练习者访客：人民币400元

请邀请您的朋友来观看我们9月11号周六下午四点到六点在星之健身举行的升级考试Batizado,这是免费的。

再一次强调：这次活动将比去年的更隆重：更多的贵宾，更多的学员，更多的Axé!
不要错过了今年与卡波耶拉大师们面对面交流的最好机会！

Download Batizado 2010 Program (PDF)

Friday 10th of September
20:00-22:00	Workshop at Stargym Wuyi Lu n.777, 2F, by Zhongshan Xi Lu 武夷路777号, 2楼 After class, dinner at …
Saturday 11th of September
14:30-16:00	Workshop at Stargym Wuyi Lu n.777, 2F, by Zhongshan Xi Lu 武夷路777号, 2楼
16:00-18:00	Batizado and Troca de Cordao
20:00-00:00	Party at Latina Restaurant Special price RMB170 all you can eat + 2 Caipirinhas Xujiahui, Grand Gateway Square, 1 Hongqiao Rd. COCO, MACULELE AND CAPOEIRA SHOW from 9:20pm
Sunday 12th of September
15:00-18:00	Workshop at Stargym Wuyi Lu n.777, 2F, by Zhongshan Xi Lu 武夷路777号, 2楼
20:00-22:30	Dinner at Japanese Restaurant all you can eat (not decided yet)
Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th of September
20:00-22:00	Workshops at Stargym Wuyi Lu n.777, 2F, by Zhongshan Xi Lu武夷路777号, 2楼 After the workshops, dinner somewhere

Download Batizado 2010 Program (PDF)

The 3rd Annual Batizado of Capoeira Mandinga Shanghai will take place on the 10th-11th-12th of September!

Workshops, rodas, performances, party: it’s going to be a massive event!

Special guests:

- Mestre Marcelo Caveirinha, Founder of Capoeira Mandinga

- Mestre Espirro Mirim, Cordao de Ouro Tucson

- Contra Mestre Espeto, Capoeira Forca da Arte Osaka

- Contra Mestre Cipó, Capoeira Mandinga Mexico Cuernavaca

Special price for all the visiting capoeiristas: RMB400 for workshops and rodas

Further details coming soon.

Should you have any question, please send an email to capoeirashanghai@yahoo.com

Axé!

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Capoeira Mandinga Shanghai will participate to Shanghai Repertory Theater [SRT] Spring Arts Festival 2010 with Maculele, Capoeira and Batucada Show!

All the students are invited to participate and to wear the white Mandinga uniform.

Friday 21st and Sunday 23rd of May 8:00pm!

Venue: Ke Center for Contemporary Arts, 613-B Kai Xuan Road (near Yan’an West Road)

Oi Camaras,

The pictures from our trip to Kunshan are online, please check here →

Congratulations to Dalila, Gata, Matrioshka, Falcão and Rino for their new Cordão.

Salve

This was how the Brazilian Band greeted the around 500 guests in Latina Restaurant on Saturday 20.03.2010 for the Brazilian Carnival in Shanghai.

The atmosphere was like in Brazil: Traditional Brazilian carnival music, people dancing to pagode, forro and axe music, caipirinhas (the Brazilian national drink) being served in huge quantities and Brazilian samba girls dancing on stage in their beautiful sexy costumes…

It showed the international carnival crowd another tradition of Brazilian life and culture. Amidst all these traditional elements and presentations, there is certainly one cultural aspect which should not be omitted, and that is CAPOEIRA – the cultural heritage of Brazil, a sport which shows a great deal of Brazilian culture and history, a mixture of martial art, dance and music.

The performance was presented by Grupo Capoeira Mandinga, the only capoeira group in Shanghai. The space was limited, the “roda (playing circle)” small and tight, but with the berimbau (traditional one-string music instrument) leading the rhythm and songs for 20 capoeiristas, and a cheering international crowd, the atmosphere was energetic and it was the perfect time to show this beautiful Brazilian art form.

The capoeiristas played and showed all the art’s acrobatic “movimentos”, beautiful “golpes” and rhythmic “gingas”. The mixtures make the beauty of the game, and so it was exciting to see the different styles of the capoeiristas. Some impressed the crowd with radical acrobatic maneuvers, some played a smooth and stylish slow game, and some performed with many kicks and fighting movements, always controlled in order not to harm the opponent but forcing him/her to defend or launch a counterattack.

The show lasted for about 15 minutes and impressed upon everyone just how much this Brazilian cultural heritage has spread all over the world – even to Shanghai.

Capoeira exhibition for the opening of Greenlife NPO’s new office

On the 18th of March 2010, after years of managing their activities from their home, the non-profit-organisation for environmental protection Greenlife NPO celebrated the opening ceremony of their new office in Luwan District, Shanghai. Capoeira Mandinga Shanghai took part in the set of performances to entertain the guests, which included Chinese traditional dancing, contemporary dancing, a comedian show, and a couple of music performances.

Over ten capoeristas displayed their kicking, singing and percussion abilities for a crowd of more than 250 people. Most of the audience −mainly Chinese and Japanese− wasn’t familiar with the art, but after a couple of minutes of uncertainty on their faces, they soon grasped the fun of the game and the rhythm of the music, then the clapping and cheering spread in the hall. The climax of the show came when Guerreiro went upside down in a solid bananera, that provoked a wave of excited gasping. The acrobatic position and his upper body −lush with masculinity and suddenly unveiled by the fall of his T-shirt− were equally compelling. Sushi delighted us with a flash come back from Japan appearing just before the show to treat us with his neat technique. The audience didn’t notice, but Pombinha could not overlook his change in shape since he left the group.

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Camaras!

Next Saturday 20th of March there will be a Brazilian Carnival Party at Latina in Xujiahui, with live music, samba, caipirinha. They have asked us to do a capoeira presentation there! So EVERYONE is invited to come to give energy and to play capoeira.

The party starts at 22:00 (Free entrance).

We can go there earlier for dinner (they can give us a discount on the buffet).

Please let me know if you can come for dinner, or just for the show. I need to inform the organizer.
It’s going to be massive!

Axé!

Dear Capoeristas,

We are trying to get together a possible Capoeira performance next week, on Thursday the 18th. The whole event will run between 17:00 and 20:00 but we would perform after 7, probably around 19:15 (flexible time). We would like to know who could make it. Please answer as soon as you can if you can make it and at what time, so I can give a definite proposal to the organiser.

The show would be within an event organised by Greenlife NPO – an ecologist NGO (www.npo-greenlife.org) to celebrate the opening of their new office and to put some art donations for sale.

The task of Greenlife NPO is fighting desertification and its consequences in China. During the last 6 years they have already planted more than half a million trees in the Hure banner, in Tongliao Prefecture in Inner Mongolia. This year they expect to raise the number up to more than one million trees and complete the project. After that, they will move to other areas suffering severe desertification in Sichuan and Yunnan. The personal story of the founder of the NPO is quite exceptional, I recommend you to check out the web page and find out.

Address

上海市户湾区局门路436号7101-A. (436, Jumen Road. Luwan District. )
Metro line 9 (Madang Rd. Station)
Metro line 8 (Xizang Nan Rd. Station)
Metro line 4 (Luban Rd St or Xizang Nan Rd. Station)

Expect around 20 min. walk from the metro stations.

Entering the compound from Luwan Road on your right there is the office, and the following building is a big hall they will use for that event.

Map

See you soon!