Dancing Capoeira
‘roda’ for everyone

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 workshop welcomes people of all types to take their very first steps in capoeira. In a friendly atmosphere everyone will be invited to interact and communicate with each other, sometimes in a dynamic group situation and other times as partner activities, through unusual ways. The foundation is playfulness, the most important point is not what you are able to perform but how to enjoy yourself best within your own possibilities and capacities.



Capoeira for Dancers
researching instincts and animal-like feelings

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 wanting to explore the relation between movement, space and partners. Bruno Caverna’s approach is deeply focused on instincts and spontaneous action-reaction patterns coming from more animal-like feelings rather than aesthetic choices. The dancers will find differences and confrontations along their process transforming into quite beneficial experiences, as they will provide a wider sense of a knowledge about yourself.



Playing in the Extremes
Life is characterized by opposites

Bruno Caverna has developed this energetic floor work with the objective to explore the polarities existing in every life situation. The basis is to establish an authentic relationship between breathing and movement. The participants are confronted with investigating which quality of movement and inner state of mind develops through a conflicted moment of breathing: inhaling and exhaling. This polarity could be considered an inherent existential condition present in all our life.
Caverna starts with an intense training combing techniques such as gliding on the floor, controlling the breath, turning and twisting, spiraling principles, techniques of headlong in a dynamic flow - to finally let go of them in order to concentrate on a mental and spiritual state, that triggers deep personal expression.
These are extremes due to the challenging fact that the physical and mental body captures an unusual floor work with unusual patterns of movement.



Bruno Caverna
Bruno Caverna is an internationally recognised dance artist/teacher well known for his charismatic and friendly personality. He has a vast background of capoeira, contemporary dance, acrobatics, Contact Improvisation and Qi Gong. Over the last 15 years, Caverna has been extensively researching ways of assimilating and integrating elements of these various forms into a more expansive somatic understanding. Caverna has always invigorated the passion of his profession with an inevitable humane impulse to interact with people of all kinds. This drive has propelled him into numerous eclectic projects. He has been invited to share his particular approach to dance and improvisation among the major schools, festivals and dance companies in Europe and overseas.