Capoeira
Capoeira is a Brazilian art that combines fighting, dancng, music and popular culture in one body movement. Capoeira is used as an educational and physical tool, in which the child from an early age, learns how to control his body, improving the perception of his body in the external environment.
Today capoeira is known as a manifestation of Afro Brazilian culture all over the world.
Inside the João Paulo II Educational Centre, capoeira is used as a training base for children and young adults in the community. They not only receive lessons on culture, but they also learn values, in order to live harmoniously with others and, in perspective, to easily enter and adapt to the labour market: factors such as punctuality, respect for differences, teamwork and character formation.
The capoeira project is carried out in collaboration with the Capoeira Novo Mundo Group under the guidance of Mestre Rildo, who, in the last six years, has concluded each season of its work at the Educational Centre with the ceremony of Batizado of its students
Rildo do Amor Divino Santos, born in Salvador on September 22, 1972, started Capoeira at the age of 9 at the School 1st of November with the current Mestre Berico of the Grupo Berimbau Cruzado. In 2012 he became Mestre and with his group, Capoeira Novo Mundo he received the title of Notório Saber de Mestre de Cultura Popular from Frente Parlamentar da Capoeira. He set up the Novo Mundo Brasil dance group, in which Capoeiristas and dancers of his group and residents of the neighbourhood are the protagonists. In 2018, he won the Prêmio Capoeira VIVA, thanks to which fifty young people from the community benefited from a six-month initiation course at Capoeira free of charge.