Cracoviaxe 2022: capoeira will take over Krakow. Brazilian holiday – News at the weekend
The three-day celebration of capoeira – Brazilian martial art will take over Krakow on the last weekend of May. In addition to open shows, participation in addition to the celebration is also planned. As the first Pole, Adam Faba will be awarded the “mestre” degree, who will receive it from the hands of Brazilian masters.
Capoeira: at the turn of the 15th century among the people of the plantations, they expressed their cultural work in this way. It is a combination of the dance and rhythms of African, Indian and South American tribes as well as self-defeating elements, dodges and takedowns.
Theater, music, dance and fight
For complementing dance, dance and dance. For those practicing capoeira for martial arts and general development sports, demanding competition and acrobatic skills.
Cracoviaxe will get to know capoeira better and with it, the author of culture. Training sessions for main advancement groups are planned on the last weekend of May. Anyone can come, regardless of age or gender. Classes taking place in the sports hall at 17 Kamienna Street. After planning, also a “roda”, a meeting in a circle in which the champions can demonstrate and use the acquired skills, by surprising their partner.
Champions will be crowned
The culminating moment of Cracoviaxe will be the Saturday formatura, i.e. the awarding of the master’s and professor’s degrees to which this art is concerned, marked with colored strings. The highest degree of mestre was awarded to Adam Faba, known in the world of capoeira as Sem Memoria. He is a master who has been practicing capoeira for almost 30 years and has already educated many master coaches. Several of them also received professors’ degrees during the format. They will be handed over by champions from Brazil, who are coming to Poland especially for this.
The upcoming ones will have a special one. For UNICAR Capoeira group from all over Poland: Bielsko-Biała, Wrocław, Łódź, Koszalin, Lublin, Warsaw, Białystok, as well as representatives of UNICAR London will come near Wawel. There will also be friendly groups headed by masters and professors.
And then … fun!
Cords for an additional layer can be placed in the Sports Hall of Kamienna 17 Street. The main part of the format will be in Forty Kleparz.
After the main ceremony, a hot Brazilian festa will begin with samba shows, to the rhythm of the Brazilian Batucada orchestra and of course with capoeira shows and fun until the wound of the Samba Pagode band. The aim of Cracoviaxe is to popularize Afro-Brazilian culture and to promote the multifaceted martial art, which is capoeira.
Cracoviaxe 2022 program:
Friday May 27, 2022
Sports Hall, Kamienna 17
17:30 Registration
18:00 – 20:00 Beginning of classes (2 trainings of 1 hour – 3 groups of advancements)
20: 00-21: 30 roda aberta – a circle in which we use the acquired skills during training
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Sports Hall, Kamienna 17
9:30 Continuation of registration
10:00 – 12:00 Beginning of classes – (2 trainings of 1 hour each – 3 groups of advancements)
12:00 – 12:30 break
12:30 – 16:00 Batizado e tro de corda – giving the broken steps
16:00 – 19:00 lunch break
Kleparz Forty, ul. Kamienna 2/4
19:00 – 21:30 Formatura profesores i mestre
21:30 Festa Tropical – an event in the Brazilian atmosphere
Sunday May 29, 2022
LO 44 Bernardyńska 7
10:00 – 11:00 surprise training
ul. Grodzka, Market Square
11:15 – 12:45 Parade and rodas