The ABC of Old Masters of Capoeira

78
Vivaldo Rodrigues Conceição
Mestre Boa Gente
17/May/1945

May, 2023 in: featured

The ABC

1945 - Was born on the 17th May in Ibicarai, Bahia.
1956 - Started learning capoeira with M Antônio Cabeceiro (M Pastinha's student) in Ilhéus.
1960 - In Salvador started learning capoeira with M Gato Preto at the Escola Baiana de Capoeira Angola in Mirante do Calabar (see below!).
1963 - Appears on the photos at the Escola Baiana de Capoeira Angola taken by H. Rautavaara.
1970 - Stopped training with M Gato.
1972 - Together with professor Lee founded the Associação de Tae kwon-do da Bahia and continued to train there.
1974 - From the Leopardo Negro Valdemar Santana's school got to the MMA champion title of Bahia.
1981 - Founded the Associação de Capoeira Mestre Boa Gente and from then on taught in various places such as Vale das Pedrinhas, Nordeste de Amaralina, Santa Cruz and at the College of São Paulo of Bahia.
1987 - Appears on the photos of the I Batismo de Capoeira Ajagunã de Palmares on the Ilha de Santa Catarina.
1993 - Taught Mark Dacascos for the Only the Strong movie.
2000 - Together with M Gato Preto and other masters participated at Brazil's 500 years celebrations in Pôrto Seguro.
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M Boa Gente

Sitting:
Gato Góes (berimbau to the right),
Boa Gente (pandeiro)
Playing: ? and M Gato
Mirante do Calabar (today Jardim Apipema), Mrs Pompilha's school
Dec/1963
Collection: M Dorado

M Amen Santos, M Boa Gente and Mark Dacascos
Collection: M Boa Gente

M Boa Gente

M Boa Gente

M Boa Gente, M Acordeon, M Lobão
Photo: Jennifer Wright

M Gildo Alfinete, M Leopoldina, M Boa Gente

Young M Boa Gente
Collection: M Boa Gente

M Gato Preto and M Boa Gente
Pôrto Seguro, 2000
Collection: M Boa Gente

M Boa Gente and M Caiçara

M Boa Gente and Michael Palin
2012
M Boa Gente

M Boa Gente and M Brasília

M Boa Gente

About the Old Masters:

«[Besouro's] first contact with the world of capoeira took place with an old african called Alípio, who was a captive in the Pantaleão Mill. When planting sugarcane, the student heard and learned from the old man the teachings of capoeira. Uncle Alípio was a Babalawo [candomblé priest] and had been a slave when young, a son of a black woman who was brought in a ship from the port of São Jorge da Mina in Dahomey [Benin].»
Abib, 2009
«Mestre Pastinha and his students would put the strap [of caxixi] around the little and the ring finger. He talks about this in his book, and it can be seen on the photographies taken in his Academy.»
Shaffer, 1977
«Rafael I don't know with whom he learned, don't know. I knew him here when he was capoeira mestre. I didn't have much knowledge about him. But later he came here to Pero Vaz [..] He also had his academy in the city. I didn't have integration with him.»
M Waldemar, 1987
«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
«That time there was a group [in São Braz]: it was me, Messias [M Messias, born in 1929], Zinho, Genesio, Lao, Tomazinho, Jaime, Chumbinho [..] So we had this group of boys who were all 16, 15-16 years old. And we used to get together on Saturdays and Sundays to do this capoeira. And Léo was the mestre.»
M Gato Preto, 1999

BOA GENTE

78
Vivaldo Rodrigues Conceição
Mestre Boa Gente
17/May/1945

The ABC

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