ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco (ACSF) was founded in the Mission District 30 years ago this month by the Bay Area's own Márcia Treidler (a.k.a. "Mestra Cigarra") who serves as Artistic Director. To ...
In a Mission District studio, a barefooted Brazilian woman in white pants steps to the front of a group of about 30 students. Speaking almost entirely in Portuguese, the instructor dives into 90 heart ...
Lisa Willoughby knows plenty of people haven’t heard of capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art form she grew up seeing in Brazil. But, she’s trying to change that through ABADÁ-Capoeira Marin, the ...
ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco (ACSF), the Bay Area's first non-profit organization dedicated to recovering, preserving, and promoting Afro-Brazilian culture, will host its annual Batizado and ...
Grupo Abadá Capoeira fará coreografia em homenagem a 300 anos do Aqueduto dos Arcos da Lapa — Foto: Leo Martins "A ginga é o coração da capoeira", diz Mestre Camisa, de 67 anos, um dos grandes ...
O Projeto Abadá Capoeira, fundado no Rio de Janeiro em 1987 e hoje presente em cerca de 80 países, chegou ao bairro São Cosme em 2014 crédito: Marcos Vieira /EM/DA. Press No Bairro São Cosme, em Santa ...
Experience capoeira--the dance-like martial art of Brazil--in this outdoor, intergenerational performance with live music and traditional instruments. ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco, a women-led ...