The Capoeira Experience
Traditional Capoeira Training with Mestranda Edna Lima
Mestranda Edna Lima and Abadá Capoeira New York
... sharing experiences with new friends ... performing, playing, and praying ... living the Capoeira way!!
Grao Mestre João Grande's Birthday Roda: 2006
Mestranda Lima at Mestre João Grande's Birthday Roda
Capoeira Angola Center of Mestre João Grande
The Snow Roda: Blizzard of 2006
BLIZZARD OF 2006 in New York found Mestranda Lima trekking outside with her students at Cameron Dance/SoHo to celebrate the greatest blizzard in 10 years
Graduado Tundaka leads the trek
Mestranda Lima and Graduado Batuque
Wear Red: Women's Heart Truth Annual Workout
Women's Heart Truth annual events raise awareness of women's heart disease and promote physical activity with a special Capoeira Workout® class at NYSC/SoHo
Heart Truth Capoeira Workout®
Capoeira conditioning
unique Capoeira exercises
traditional Capoeira Roda
Technique Impact Training™ at Shotojuku Dojo
Biomechanics of IMPACT TRAINING with Capoeira techniques explained by Mestranda Edna Lima.
Training with impact pads and equipment provides a new dimension to the application of techniques
Kai Leung's Shotojuku Dojo
Graduado Batuque (Sweden) assists Tundaka
Estilo practices queixada
Impact Training Method™
training in a special "impact" Roda
Abadá Capoeira New York Batizado 2006
BATIZADO 2006 and YOUTH BATIZADO with over two dozen Capoeira Youth™ from Harlem and Brooklyn
Mestre João Grande calls AXÉ
Mestranda Lima opens the Roda
Capoeiristas from Harlem and Brooklyn
Capoeira Youth™ receive their corda
Mestre Camisa's Workshops in New York
MESTRE CAMISA visits NYC for a week of workshops at Chelsea Studios and an Abadá Capoeira Batizado
Mestre Camisa explains the "Way of Abadá"
Abadá Capoeira
CPR training for Advanced Students
CPR TRAINING with Michael Yousouf at the Shotojuku Dojo
Mestranda Edna Lima practicing CPR
Graduado Zimba (Sweden) pays close attention
Special training in Union Square Park
UNION SQUARE outdoor Capoeira class and Roda with a visit by Professor Andre Gusmao
class started in the day
class continued into the night
Capoeira class in Union Square
Capoeira Roda in Union Square
Fundraiser and Roda Under the Stars in Brooklyn
FUNDRAISER under the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn with Brazilian food and drink, video projections, and a rooftop Roda and dance!
the party moved to the rooftop
Brazilian Swing
the dance soon turned into a Roda
subway riders on the bridge watched closely
Berimbau Crafting Workshop in SoHo
BERIMBAU WORKSHOP outdoors at Cameron Dance/SoHo with lessons in crafting a Berimbau: cabaça, aramé, and verga. Participants had an opportunity to craft their own Berimbau
Mestranda explains how to open a cabaça
Aerobica shows her first cabaça
Mestranda explains how to open a tire
Tundaka opens his first aramé
Harlem Youth Music Workshop at Central Park Meers
Mestranda Edna Lima's Capoeira Youth™ Events in Central Park Meers with an outdoor Capoeira class and Music Workshop for Harlem youthh
Outdoor class by the lakeside Meers
Outdoor Roda by the lakeside Meers
Mestranda Lima's traditional rhythms
Mestranda welcomes the newest Capoeirista
In Memorium: 9/11
Mestranda Edna Lima and Abadá Capoeira Memorial for 9/11
Mestranda Lima lights a candle in memory
Axé for peace
Outdoor Performance at Highbridge Park, Bronx
Mestranda Edna Lima presents a CULTURAL PERFORMANCE at Highbridge Park/Bronx with Capoeira, Maculele, and Candomble featuring Mario Pereira
Capoeira onstage
Brazilian Swing
Candomble onstage
Mario Pereira's Orixas
Labor Day Class and Roda at Central Park Bandshell
CENTRAL PARK RODA celebrating Labor Day at the Naumberg Bandshell
Aerobica in class at the Bandshell
Aramé in class at the Bandshell
Mestranda Edna Lima Workshops in Japan
Mestranda Edna Lima presented a series of workshops with her students in Tokyo
Capoeira Workout® introduced in Japan
Mestranda Lima giving special "notes"
Cross-Training in Okinawan Karate
MARTIAL ARTS crosstraining in Okinawan Karate at Cameron Dance/SoHo with Sensei Mark Dwyer and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu at the Shotojuku Dojo with Sensei Gene Dunn
Sensei Dwyer is one of Sensei Edna Lima's oldest friends in New York and a senior Karate instructor who has trained for over 30 years in North America and Okinawa
Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate
Mestranda Lima introduces Sensei Dwyer
Sensei Dwyer demonstrates Karate "ginga"
Coco & Coruja practice Karate methods
Aramé invites Sensei Dwyer into the Roda
Cross-Training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Sensei Gene Dunn was coached by Sensei Edna Lima to several international Karate championships and later began training BJJ becoming the first US blackbelt in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Brooklyn Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
Tundaka paying close attention
and applying the lesson
Aramé escape and kick from the ground
Mestranda Lima, Sensei Dunn, Graduado Aramé
Stage Performance at the ING New York Marathon
Abada Capoeira at ING NEW YORK MARATHON celebrating over 37,000 international runners with a Capoeira Music performance onstage in Brooklyn
the Marathon field passes the bateria
Mestranda Lima and Graduada Aramé offer Axé
Stage Performance at the LIU Dance Faculty Concert
LIU DANCE FACULTY CONCERT featuring World Dance Professor Edna Lima.
Performance opened with Aerobica's solo
Performance closed with Amazonas forms featuring Kiki da Bahia, Tiba and Mario Pereira
Celebrating Mestre Itapoan's Saga of Mestre Bimba
MESTRE ITAPOAN introduced his book Saga of Mestre Bimba in New York with a book-signing and Roda presented by Mestre Glauber of Capoeira Legados
Mestranda Lima opens the Roda
spirited games during the Roda
Demonstrating Capoeira Culture
Mestrand Edna Lima and guests introduced Capoeira culture at a festival addressing cultural diaspora
Maculele featuring Tiba
Maculele featuring Kiki da Bahia
New Year's Day at the Joaõ Grande Capoeira Academy
NEW YEAR'S DAY 2007 at the Joao Grande Capoeira Academy
Mario and Rasta chamada
Music and axé after the Roda