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Capoeira Painting
Project - Summary
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Background to the Work
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This work is about a community of people creating dynamic paintings using their hands and feet while moving to Brazilian Capoeira rhythms, interacting with each other to produce a stunning visual performance and fresh, spontaneous paintings.

The Capoeira performers have various paint colours rolled onto their hands and feet before joining a continuously flowing game of Capoeira on a canvas, slowly building up a painting with their movements.

The Capoeira performers are accompanied by a live Capoeira rhthym band, consisting of at least six people playing a variety of percussion instruments and singing traditional Capoeira songs in Brazilian-Portuguese.

The painting performance is an event in itself and the finished paintings at the end of the performances are the recording of all of the movements made. These spontaneous marks made by different performers with different colours combine to create visually arresting paintings.

What better than a group of people, different personalities and flavours, all moving to a rhythm with the same spirit and similar learning, to unselfconciously paint and record these chaotic and organised forces using their bodies as a brush.

The spirit of the Capoeira game is manifested in the painting. Please look at 'Background to the Work' to understand the deeper subjects that I am attempting to address with this work.

To date this work has had three major public performances (see 'Performances') and two practice sessions (see 'Preparation').

All of the participants are regular Capoeira players with Capoeira Angola Palmares school and the standard of the Capoeira performance is very high.