Capoeira Beribazu - Brisbane, Australia
About us - Capoeira in Brisbane
In Australia, Group Beribazu is represented by Monitor Pequeno (Paulo Vinicius), who teaches capoeira in Brisbane. Pequeno started playing capoeira in 1997 in Florianópolis, Brazil, with Mestre Falcão, who currently supervises Pequeno's capoeira activities. Despite always being Falcão's student, Pequeno is also very thankful to Jordan Passos (Dan) with whom he trained and learned a lot.
In Brisbane, Group Beribazu consists of a not-for-profit activity that welcomes everyone with a positive attitude and interested in learning and sharing their capoeira experience.
About us - Our Capoeira Group
Group Beribazu was created in August 11, 1972 in Brasília, the capital of Brazil, by Mestre Zulu. It follows the ideology that capoeira should always be intimately connected to its cultural roots, aiming at the development of the practiser not only from a body and fight activity but also from the musical, historical and cultural perspectives.
Following the motto "Arte-Luta" (Art-Fight), Group Beribazu seeks to overcome the division between Capoeira Angola and Capoeira Regional, trying to promote capoeira comprehensively, by respecting, acknowledging, and playing all of its facets.
Since its start in Brasília, the group has grown and can now be found all over Brazil. And starting from the beginning of the 1990's, it has expanded its activities to several countries such as Argentina, Poland, Italy, United States, Switzerland, and more recently Australia. In total, the group currently has 93 capoeira teachers, among mestres, contra-mestres, instrutores, monitores and estagiários.
The group is administered by a "Conselho de Mestres" (Board of Masters), composed of all the mestres in the group (currently 11) with a president elected every year.
The Statute that guides the group can be found here (in Portuguese).
About us - Beribazu's Grading System
The "cordas" (belts) in Group Beribazu are divided as follows:
- Student Cordas:
Azul
Azul-Marrom
Marrom
Marrom-Verde
Verde
- Teacher Cordas:
Estagiário
Monitor
Instrutor
Contra-Mestre
Mestre (Edificador)
Mestre (Dignificador)
