Crianças De Capoeira Angola

Ancestral wisdom in motion is the guiding idea at Crianças de Capoeira Angola, an East Austin academy devoted to Capoeira Angola, the slow, strategic, music-driven Afro-Brazilian art recognized by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. Training here revolves around the roda, where movement, call-and-response song, and instruments like the berimbau and atabaque form a single conversation that teaches timing, awareness, and calm under pressure. Classes welcome adults, youth, and whole families at the studio on East 11th Street, and the academy treats capoeira as a holistic tool of freedom rather than mere exercise, preserving a tradition that traces back to Mestre Pastinha’s Salvador de Bahia school. It is a rare Texas home for this older, deliberate style. Register at capatx.com or call 512-850-6008 for class details.

Hours

nFriday: Closed