Capoeira Angola Diversifying the University: sowing an Ecology of Knowledges in the Performing Arts

Using testimonies from students after one semester practicing the art of capoeira, we underscore the potentiality of Capoeira Angola for actor training, as well as for promoting the self-knowledge of human beings and their social action. It is the playfulness and complexity of Capoeira Angola’s mart...

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Autor principal: Gallep, Cristiano de Mello
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença 2023
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Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:Using testimonies from students after one semester practicing the art of capoeira, we underscore the potentiality of Capoeira Angola for actor training, as well as for promoting the self-knowledge of human beings and their social action. It is the playfulness and complexity of Capoeira Angola’s martial game, congregating space-body skills, music and poetry, in addition to a history of resistance and resilience as African heritage, constructing an Ecology of Knowledges that contributes to performing arts training and also to the embracing of Afro-diasporic popular culture by Brazilian universities.