Capoeira Roda
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2017 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 4: On The Move / 4.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2017 July 02
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2017, Item SFF2017_0702_OTM_Jubilee_Stage_0003
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Amalia Cordova (presenter); Joao Grande; Mestre Jelon Vigra ;NEA National Heritage Fellows Mestre João Grande and Mestre Jelon Vieira, capoeira masters from New York City, and several of their students will demonstrate capoeira Angola style and "regional" style in roda (circle) demonstration. Grande, a grand master of capoeira Angola first learned the art from Mestre Pastinha, who continues to be his primary source of inspiration. As founder and artistic director of The Capoeira Foundation and DanceBrazil, Viera and the late Loremil Machado were the first artists to bring traditional Afro-Brazilian dance and capoeira to the United States over thirty years ago.