Capoeira sou eu

So I don't have many new exciting things to talk about at the moment, but I have been keeping myself busy and trying to be productive with my free time (which I almost have too much of). One bit of news is that I now have a capoeira nickname! It's Areia Branca (White Sand). It's kind of self-explanatory but just in case you didn't get it immediately - Areia, because my last name is Sand, and Branca because... I'm white. Anyway, I like it :) Last week I went with some capoeira friends to Nova Iguaçu for a performance. Petroleo teaches a kid's capoeira class at a project there and his boss set up for us to perform for a woman's group during an event they were having. It was really fun and I think the women really appreciated it. We had a roda, played capoeira, played maculele, samba'd, and talked a little bit. Sooooo here are some photos!

Libelula (her nickname = Dragonfly) giving a queixada

Petroleo playing with one of the women who participated

Another woman who participated

Coração and Doralice playing maculele

Me and Cirilo playing maculele (can you tell how afraid I am???)

Coração and one of Petroleo's students sambaing

In a samba roda it's always a male and a female dancing. When a guy wants to get in a dance he has to take the other guy's place, so a lot of the time they'll do little tricks like tapping the person on the shoulder and pointing at something outside of the roda to distract the person and take their place.

The whole group :)