Dancing Capoeira

Capoeira is a Brazilian art form that mixes dance and combat, rhythm and acrobatic, poetry and self expression. It is celebrated as a ritual activity in a circular area called "roda”.
This Intensive welcomes people of all type to give their very first steps in capoeira.
The participants will be introduced into a friendly atmosphere where everyone will be invited to interact and communicate with each other, sometimes in a group dynamic situation and other times as partner activities, through unusual ways.The foundation is playfulness, so that the most important point is not what you are able to perform but how to enjoy yourself best within your own possibilities and capacities.


Playing in the Extremes

Playing in the Extremes is an energetic floor work, that Bruno Caverna has developed with the objective of researching and exploring the polarity that exists in every life situation. The basis of his class is to establish the authentic relationship between breathing and movement. The participants are confronted with the investigation of which quality of movement and/or inner state of mind develops through a conflicted moment of breathing: breathing in and breathing out. This polarity could be viewed as an inherent existential condition present throughout our whole life. Caverna starts with a very intensive training, which combines the following techniques and elements: gliding on the floor, control of breath, turning and twisting, spiral principles, techniques of headlong in a flowing dynamic - to finally let go of them again and to concentrate on a mental and spiritual state, that triggers deep, personal expressions.


Extreme because of the challenging fact that the physical and mental body captures an unusual floor work with unusual patterns of movement.


Capoeira for Dancers

Capoeira is a Brazilian art form that mixes dance and combat, rhythm and acrobatic, poetry and self-expression. It is celebrated as a ritual activity in a circular area called "roda”. The classes welcome dancers from all backgrounds who want to explore the relations between movements, space and opponents under a single spectrum.

Bruno Caverna’s approach is deeply focused on instincts and spontaneous action-reaction interactions inspired by more animalistic-like feelings rather than esthetical patterns. Eventually, the possible differences and confrontations, the dancers may find along its process, will be reverted into very beneficial outcomes, in the sense of providing wider perspectives on one’s self-knowledge.


Bruno Caverna
Bruno Caverna started capoeira at the age of 10 in Rio de Janeiro by training with several Brazilian Masters like: Peixinho, Nestor Capoeira, Toni Vargas, Gil Velho, Gato, etc. Since 1995 he has been developing his very particular method of teaching it and is not linked with any group or organization. Capoeira, as being part of almost 20 years of his life, has showed a profound way of living. Therefore Caverna has always been enormously enthusiastic to share it with as many people as he can.