Re: capoeira

Heikki J Wilenius (hwileniu@cc.helsinki.fi)
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 14:42:25 +0300 (EET DST)


On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Rob Endersby wrote:

> Correct. Has anyone else watched/tried Capoeira- it struck me as break
> dancing kung fu tai chi for stoners, amazing stuff. I can see the hit
> video now..

I was yesterday watching a finnish a-j band called Soup de Loop,
with them were four capoeira dancers and one guy breakdancing
in front of the stage for a couple of songs. It looked cool
enough, but they didn't dance to the rhythm, so it didn't
fit to the music well enough. The guy breakdancing was the only
one actually moving to the music, the others were just doing
fancy spin kicks and stuff.

It was a nice idea, but it didn't work out too well. Maybe the
capoeira dancers weren't used to dancing to a-j...

Heikki