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Samba Workshop this weekend

Feb 242010

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!
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Roda De Rua First Week photos and videos

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Feb 222010

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!

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Roda De Rua Series 5

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Feb 052010

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!!

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Roda De Rua – Borracha’s Acrobatics Workshop

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Nov 182009

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!.

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Week 4 – Afro Dance Awesomeness with Capoeira Nago

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Nov 182009

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.

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Roda De Rua 4 – This Sunday 15th November

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Nov 112009

Well so far, so good this round of Roda De Rua, we have covered samba, the beats behind samba and funk, and now this week we are tackling another style of dance, Maculelê.

Maculelê is a Brazilian dance form with African roots, it is played with each dancer holding a pair of sticks called grimas, which are traditionally made from the biriba wood. The dancers use the sticks to hit each against one another’s grimas, as well as their own, in tune with the atabaque (Drum). The more daring and experienced dancers perform the dance with machetes rather than sticks, often showing off sparks of light as the knives cross paths, adding to the atmosphere of the dance.

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Roda De Rua – Series #4 – Sambatastic!!

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Nov 052009

Capoerista’s woke up to a beautiful sunny day in Sydney on Sunday for a little bit of Samba and an awesome day for Roda De Rua at Coogee Beach in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs!

Kicking off the day we headed down to the PCYC at Daceyville (Kingsford) for some music practice, a little bit of play, followed by a very challenging Samba class. The amazing Cristina Ramon took on the challenge that was teaching us a samba routine, and if I thought I was un-coordinated before the class, I KNOW I am definitely un-co now heheâ€¦ The class was great fun, and it was fun to see everyone give it a go, trying to shake their booties – trying being the operative word for some of us! Our next challenge, possibly our homework, is to remember the little routine we learnt, a challenge for any worthy capoeirista, but with a few more lessons from the lovely Cristina I think we might just get it down. Continue reading »

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Roda De Rua – This Sunday 8th November

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Nov 042009

So keep your dancing shoes on Capoeiristas, continuing our workshops this weekend, we are happy to have along brasilian percussion expert, “Timbalada” (Tim), to teach us all the intricacies of the fantastic and energetic style of brazilian drumming!

Tim is an artist from Bahia in Brazil and has danced and played drums since he was a child. He is proficient in numerous styles of Brazilian dance including; Samba, Axe, Lambada, Forro, Lamb-Axe and Lamba-Aerobics. Tim trained in Brazil with the renowned music and performance group Timbalada and studied the Brazilian martial art Capoeira with the group Topazio. He also toured Europe with the Axe BaBa Dance Company in 1999-2000, and whilst in Portugal taught Latin dance at Lisbon University. Since moving to Australia, Tim has taught Latin dance at Newcastle University as well as venues on the Gold Coast, QLD. He is currently performing, teaching dance, and playing percussion in Sydney with his group Brazilian Roots as well as other performance groups in Sydney.

So what will we be learning you might ask? We’ll be giving the batucada drums a bit of a bash. Batucada is a substyle of samba and refers to an African influenced Brazilian percussive style, usually performed by an ensemble, known as a Batería. It is considered by some to be the epitome of the percussive ensemble.

So come on down to the Eastern Suburbs PCYC this Sunday 8^th November and get ready to feel the energy as we attempt to play the drums well enough to get the audience dancing, and put the little samba routine we were taught last weekend into practice!