The ABC of Old Masters of Capoeira

CATIVEIRO GROUP'S VISIT
Liberdade, Salvador
1986

March, 2017

The same year [1986] I also had a contact with one of the greatest singers and berimbau players of Bahia, Mestre Waldemar Rodrigues da Paixão, where I had a great theoretical class, in his own house in Salvador, about the history of capoeira, the bateria formation and the berimbau rhythms.
M Zequinha
Photo gallery
M Zequinha,
M Waldemar,
M Djop Barbosa
1986
Liberdade - Salvador, Bahia
M Djop Barbosa's collection

M Waldemar and M Pedro Feitosa
1986
Liberdade - Salvador, Bahia
Alex Dias's collection

M Miguel Machado and M Waldemar
86 or 87?
Photographer Cabral (AG. Brahma press)
Liberdade - Salvador, Bahia
M Mico Louriz's collection
M Waldemar, 1986

About M Waldemar:

«[..] there [in Pero Vaz] were two special places - Zacarias's Dive and Mr Waldemar's Shed, where the capoeira fights and rooster fights took place, always on weekends. When Mr Joaquim Fiuza [born in 1946] was a young boy, he always went to these two places to have fun, to dance and drink at the Dive and watch the incredible capoeira shows in the Shed. He remembers how the clapped hands for Mr Waldemar and, in chorus, called him "Seven Springs" [there was also another mestre by that name, who had a roda close to Waldemar's] thanks to his fast movements and the ability to play capoeira without dirtying his white clothes, that were used on weekends, as any good capoeirista would.»
Araújo, 2010
«The deceased Traíra was who took care of the roda. I went there, gave my order and went to have a beer. I was made.»
M Waldemar in Abreu, 2003
«In the interview that [Marcel Gautherot] gave me, already mentioned, he comments that «the only thing the groups [including that of M Waldemar?] asked me was rum. They never asked money for being photographed. It was always between friends».»
Segala, 2012

CATIVEIRO GROUP'S VISIT
Liberdade, Salvador
1986