Capoeira originated in Brazil as a way for enslaved Africans to disguise their fighting skills training as a dance. It later evolved into a martial art and cultural expression. In the early 20th century, Mestre Bimba helped popularize a standardized form of Capoeira known as Regional, while Mestre Pastinha preserved the traditional Angola style. Both masters opened academies that helped spread Capoeira around Brazil and the world.

1. THE HISTORY OF CAPOEIRA

2. THE CONCEPT
• Capoeira is a cultural manifestation formed by different
components. It is dance, struggle, music, chants,
expression, play, a series of elements that form an
authentic philosophy of life.

3. THE BEGINNING
• By the 16th century, the Crown of
Portugal began the colonization of
Brazil.
• The merchandise was none other
than black slaves of different origins
within the African continent.

5. • Once in America, Negroes,
from different tribes and
cultures, were segregated by
mixing them and thus avoiding
a possible organization
against the white man's
dominance through cultural
differences that separated
them like language, beliefs or
simply hostility between tribes
of provenance.

6. • The Negroes will be distributed
in slave quarters near the
plantations of tobacco, cotton
and sugar where they will serve
as slave labor, in areas such as
Bahia, Recife or Rio de Janeiro
mainly.

8. • From the beginning, the slaves didn´t give
up their freedom, being protagonists of
fortuitous escapes, aggressions or small
revolts that did not have the success
expected by the impossibility of organizing
in mass.

9. CAPOEIRA IS BORN

10. • Capoeira was born as a way
to disguise the fact that
slaves were training to fight
(against their owners),
hiding it in the form of a
cheerful dance number.

12. • After slavery was abolished in 1888,
the freedmen moved to the cities of
Brazil. With the shortage of
employment, many joined or formed
criminal gangs.
• As a result, Capoeira was banned in
Brazil in 1890

14. • Mestre Bimba made a great
contribution for the
preservation of this art to
open the first academy for
teaching Capoeira.
• The influence of the
teaching system of Mestre
Bimba took place in 1937,
when he was invited to act
with his students in an
event in which Getúlio
Vargas (the president of
Brazil at that time) was
present

15. • Vargas was so impressed
with the discipline and
devotion of the pupils of
Mestre Bimba, who
declared the Capoeira the
national sport of Brazil.

17. • Mestre Bimba's
Capoeira is currently
called Capoeira
Regional
• Capoeira Mestre Bimba
continued to gain
popularity, but it was
tried to avoid that this
art lost its traditions

18. • In 1942, mestre pastinha
opened the first academy
of art mor a traditional,
know capoeira Angola
• Mestre Pastinha's efforts
prevented Capoeira
Angola from being lost in
pursuit of the
modernized forms of art
that were gaining

20. • This era was a milestone of drastic change in the way of
instructing in the capoeira art.
• Previously, Capoeira was transmitted in secret, usually through
a relative, like a father or an uncle, or in groups where young
people from a particular community received advice from

21. • Ancient At this time, the
academy adquired
predominance in the
practice of this art.
Currently there
Academies of capoeira in
almost all the continents