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
Born in Rio de Janeiro and based in Europe since 2000, Bruno Caverna has always been fascinated by the fine art of movement. At the age of 10 he began practising Capoeira (a Brazilian martial art), which led him to work at a circus as an acrobat in 1993. The year after Bruno discovered contemporary dance, a significant turning point for realising that dance was the missing link, an opening for a world of endless possibilities. Over the past 18 years, Bruno has been moving through a thread of uncompromised dedication in the art of integrating his visions and expertise from various dance modalities and disciplines into a corporal language of his own. In 2003 the culmination of this integrative process was expressed through the rise of a refined floor technique strongly influenced by animal’s movement and woven with principles of water flow.

Next to that, Caverna has always been ready to reinvigorate the passion of his profession with an inevitable humane impulse to interact with people from all walks of life. This quality has propelled him to engage into eclectic projects of social flavours like: teaching dance at refugee camps, jails, psychiatric clinics, communities with disadvantages in the Amazon region, to mention a few.
Bruno has also taught workshops in collaboration with David Zambrano, Frey Faust, Rasmus Ölme and has choreographed for the "National Ballet of Norway" and "De Stilte" a Dutch Company specialised in performance pieces for children, and is constantly invited to teach his method in the major dance arenas of Europe and overseas.