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2º Festival Capoeira de Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japão
Monday October 27th to Sunday November 2nd, 2008
An official part of the ‘100 Years of Exchange: Brazil - Japan’ celebrations, the Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japão will be hosting their 2nd annual Capoeira Festival this month with Brazilian guest instructors from around the world.
The festival consists of workshops covering all aspects of the Brazilian art form capoeira; including Capoeira Angola, Contemporânea, Samba, Maculelê, and Acrobatics as well as music and instruments.
Guest instructors will be flying in from Brazil, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. Two returning guests include instructors Claudinho and Rafael teaching in Singapore and Malaysia respectively. Making their debut in Japan will be instructors Grão and Lula teaching in Australia and Brazil respectively. Guest of honour, Mestre Pintor flying in from Brazil, brings his 40 years of capoeira knowledge and authority to supervise the festivities.
Workshops take place in the Kichijoji area from Monday October 27th to Saturday November 1st, including free night-time displays of capoeira on the streets during the week, and a Kids Workshop in the morning, adults workshop from midday, and free display from 2pm on Saturday.
The festival ends with a bang on Sunday November 2nd with the “Batizado & Troca de Cordas” grading ceremony, live samba, capoeira show, and a few other surprises. This event is free.
As well as the five Brazilian guest instructors, there will be many other guests coming from all over Japan.
The workshops and free Batizado event take place at Event Hall Musashino and Mitaka Yon Sho Elementary school. The workshop fee for visitors is 3000yen, no pre-registration is required. Just bring a bottle of water, sweat towel, and comfortable sports clothes.
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2nd Batizado & Troca de Cordas & Capoeira Festival of Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japan. October 27th - November 2nd, 2008
October 27th-November 1st, 2008
Workshops (Capoeira, Samba, Maculelê)
ワークショップ (カポエイラ・サンバ・マクレレ)
November 2nd, 2008
Batizado e Troca de Cordas & Brazilian Show in Mitaka Yon Sho Elementary School - Gymnasium
カポエイラ昇段式 & ブラジル・ダンス・ショー
三鷹市立第四小学校/体育館
無料/Free/Gratis
2007 Wrap-up
Wow! What a year!
2007 was our biggest year yet! With the help of the GBCJ committee, GBCJ Action Teams, volunteers, and friends, Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japan was able to host and take part in some huge events and some awesome projects!
Design Festa
2007 saw GBCJ perform live to a huge and highly receptive audience in Tokyo Big Sight at Design Festa vol. 25. It was also our first time to perform maculelê live.
Links 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Professor Gringo in Tokyo
2007 also saw our very first guest Bantus instructor Professor Gringo arrive in Tokyo. He brought with him fellow Bantulinos Shireen and Chacal for one week of fantastic workshops, street rodas in Kichijoji, an Open Roda, and Festa Junina.
Our first Batizado!
And without a doubt the highlight for GBCJ in 2007 was our very first capoeira festival and batizado with not one, not two, but three invited guest Bantus instructors Zoi, Claudinho, and Rafael and a bunch of guests from around Tokyo, and as far as Ibaraki, Gunma, Shizuoka, and Sapporo!
Trip Down Under
With the axé still high from our batizado, 10 GBCJ members hopped onto a plane and flew south to Perth, Australia for the huge event that was the 1st World Capoeira Meeting and Decade of Bantus Capoeira Australia. We took part in workshops of capoeira, samba, instrument making, and even Aboriginal dance. We met hundreds of other Bantulinos from Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Holland and Brazil. We also met up with Mestre Pintor (GBC Brazil), Mestre Escamoso (GBC Brazil), Graduado Zoi (GBC Holland), Graduado Claudinho (GBC Singapore), Instrutor Rafael (GBC Malaysia), Instrutor Grão (GBC Brazil), and Instrutor Geléia (GBC Germany). We also met Contra-Mestre Borracha (Capoeiracre - Sydney), and Professor Vira Lata (Ginga Mundo - Melbourne).
Check out the list of highlights from 2007, read more and leave comments below.
GBCJ Batizado 2007 Video Clip
Opening Roda featuring (in order of appearance)
Olho de Aguia (Abada), Graduado Zoi (GBC Holland), Fabio Baiano (Nação Capoeira), Instrutor Rafael (GBC Malaysia), Professor Japão (Nagoas), Caçapa (GBC Japan), Toshio (Capoeira Nação), Rogerio (Marana), Professor Neguinho (Marana), Prego (Tribo da Lua), Graduado Claudinho (GBC Singapore), Asuka (ACMB - Regional Japão).
1º Batizado e Festival Capoeira de Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japão
It’s finally here! Bantus Japan’s first batizado, and we want everyone to come and join us for this very special celebration. The batizado, the most important event of the capoeira year marks the day when a capoeira player is officially welcomed into the group. If you’re not sure what the batizado is, please watch some of our videos on Youtube.
The festival leading up to the batizado is going to be full of capoeira workshops, street rodas, and lots of fun. Don’t miss this chance to learn from Mestre Pintor himself.
So here’s the schedule of events
1o Batizado e Festival Capoeira de Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japão
Kichijoji, Shinjuku, Tachikawa. Tokyo, Japan.
September 3rd — 9th, 2007
Special Guests
Mestre Pintor
Graduado Zoi
Graduado Claudinho
Instrutor Rafael
Workshops
Monday 3rd - Thursday 6th
Street Roda in Shinjuku
Friday 7th
Saturday September 8th
Workshops. 11am-4pm
Bantus. Samba. Capoeira Brazil Show! 6pm-10pm
Samba Batucada! Atabaque! Maculele! Forro! Capoeira!
Shinjukumura LIVE
Sunday September 9th
Batizado and Troca de Cordas. 12pm-4.30pm
Tachikawa Showa Kinen Koen
バチザードとは？
（カポエイラ昇段式について）
バチザードは、カポエイラを学んだ生徒達がコルダと言われる帯を個々に与えられる、カポエイラで言われる大きな大会です。帯を受け取った生徒はカ
ポエイラパンツにその帯を通します。帯は手作りでさまざまな色の毛糸によって作られます。一番初めの帯は赤、黒、白で、2 番目～11 番目の帯はブラ
ジル国旗の色、青、緑、黄、白が使われます。カポエイラの経験や知識などを積んだ生徒は、バチザードの中で帯の昇段が認められます。自分の人生
をカポエイラに捧げ、個人差はありますが長い時間の訓練をつまないと一番上のマスターレベル（ポルトガル語ではメストレ）に到達する事は難しいとさ
れます。
バチザードと帯の昇段は年に一回、団体のメストレ（バントゥスの場合メストレピントール）と団体の上位インストラクター達の指導のもと行われます。
What is a Batizado?
The capoeira initiation ceremony.
A batizado (pronounced “ba-chi-za-doh”) is an initiation and grading ceremony where capoeira students receive their first capoeira cord. The students wear their cord around their waist through the belt loops of their pants. The cords are hand made with wool of various colours. The first cord is made from the colours red, black, and white. The 2nd to 11th (final) cords are made from the colours of the Brazilian flag, blue, green,yellow, and white. As a capoeira student progresses and improves in the art of capoeira, they change their cords at the batizado ceremony in another capoeira tradition known the troca de corda, or change of cords. To reach the master level (mestre de capoeira) the student needs to dedicate their life to capoeira and can take up to 30 years of training.
The batizado and troca de cordas must be supervised by the mestre of the group, in our case, Mestre Pintor, and the group’s highest ranking instructors and happens only once a year.
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