on the feet while touching a toe on the other shoulder crawling with fast, jerky movements lizard. We saw the result tied to each other and drawing, for the duration of a flash, a flower blooming and fading and losing its petals. Succeeded a wild scene: two beasts were watching, crawling towards each other, approaching, drew back, were measured, turned round with maddening slowness lazy and suddenly the dark of a straightened leap, flew and let fly a light kick was behind the mulatto whose parade ended in a somersault. Both now standing then turned around each other, monkeys locked in their cage, then one relaxing, one reversed its motion, plunged to the ground by giving the other a kick which ended in caresses.
on the feet while touching a toe on the other shoulder crawling with fast, jerky movements lizard. We saw the result tied to each other and drawing, for the duration of a flash, a flower blooming and fading and losing its petals. Succeeded a wild scene: two beasts were watching, crawling towards each other, approaching, drew back, were measured, turned round with maddening slowness lazy and suddenly the dark of a straightened leap, flew and let fly a light kick was behind the mulatto whose parade ended in a somersault. Both now standing then turned around each other, monkeys locked in their cage, then one relaxing, one reversed its motion, plunged to the ground by giving the other a kick which ended in caresses.
It goes without saying that the dancers have no awareness of the extension of their actions or those expressed attitudes. They played like young cats, but men, they can not defend themselves let show through the thousand intimate ties which enclose them in nature. In every forest lies a latent content of legends and that capoeira is now the work of men of the cities, the tradition of the African forest, revived right here is still too vivid in them so that they can already be unfaithful. From generation to generation, it has been revived for, it is true, more and smaller groups so that we can provide, despite the favor capoeira enjoys today, its final extinction in a few dozen years, probably benefiting some sports stultifying.
I recently read that the soul Xenocrates said she was "a number that moves." A capoeira Waldemar, that soul - that of nature - is represented by the number two wavy dancing.
Rio de Janeiro, January 18, 1956.
Benjamin Peret.