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Capoeira Painting
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This project is a performance that creates a final visual painting. It is achieved through the interaction of the performers moving symbiotically on a large canvas with paint on their hands and feet.

Movement, Art and Community are the fundamental aspects of this project. Skilled Capoeira (for description, see the next section entitled "Movement") performers are engaged to create a dynamic painting using a visually stunning performance of agility and acrobatics. The performers concentrate on their movements and are unconscious of the painting that they are creating, thereby producing a truly spontaneous painting.

The painting itself demonstrates the dynamic quality of the performance, essentially a painted expression of the movements themselves, a map of the performers' sequence and a record of the event itself.