As part of our Roda De Rua Series, this year, Capoeira Aruanda is holding a samba workshop, open to the public with the very talented dancer and teacher Cristina Ramon.

We are inviting everyone to come and join us at the Coogee Eastward Senior Citizen’s Hall on Sunday 28th February for this workshop from 12:30pm – 2pm.

Everyone is welcome to attend, however booking is essential as we have only limited places. To register and request payment details, email us and show your support on facebook. We are having a very special price for this workshop, only $30 for members of the public ($50 with a Roda De Rua designed singlet).

Let everyone know about this event and come along and dance up a storm!

Watch this space this week as we update the website with videos and photos from the first week of Roda De Rua down in Coogee! We’ll be doing it all again next week, followed by a BBQ, so stick around and grab some meat and drinks and enjoy the evening!

Roda De Rua Series 5 is returning to Coogee in February 2010 for 4 weeks! Following on from the success of Roda De Rua Series 4, we are following a similar format and will be conducting a series of workshops based on brazilian culture and dance, drumming, samba, afro dance and maculele, and also our favourite here at Capoeira Aruanda, acrobatics and backflip training.

Where is all this happening? We have a great new venue where we now have regular classes in Coogee, its the Coogee Eastward Senior Citizens Hall, only a minute walk from the beach.

Click on our fantastic poster on the left for the full details, and sign up before February 20th and get an earlybird discount!!

Contra Mestre Borracha

Acrobatics or ‘floreios’ have always been a part ofthe game of Capoeira, even in the traditional game of  Capoeira Angola. However, with the birth of  Capoeira Regional in the 1930s, fast, dynamic acrobatic movements such as the somersault  ‘mortal’ were introduced and became an integral part of this new style. Practitioners of Capoeira Regional are constantly challenging themselves and others with new acrobatic tricks, movements and combinations – Capoeira Aruanda Acro!.

Capoeira Aruanda’s Melodia shares her thoughts on the Afro Dance Workshop held as part of the Roda De Rua Series in November 2009!

Turning up on time to an Afro dance work shop should be high on any list of priorities; I learnt this the hard way last Sunday as I ambled into Daceyville PCYC, thinking that a 10 minute late stamp should be ok to just slip into the workshop and ‘do whatever’.
Wrong.