Capoeira

Illustration by Neil Max Emmanuel for ‘Capoeira in the Wake’ publication by Allegranti & Silas (2024)

I am a Professora of Capoeira having trained with Mestre Poncianinho at Mojuba Capoeira for twenty years. I have embodied a rich legacy of capoeira teaching Brazil and the U.S. with Mestre Zé Antonio, Barracão (Brazil), Mestre Jao Grande (New York), Mestre Roxinho, Project Bantu (Brazil).

As a white European feminist, I’ve been profoundly influenced by the Afro-Brazilian art form of capoeira in my learning, teaching, artistic creation, and research. Capoeira has particularly shaped my understanding of de-centering white colonial and embodied narratives, developing resistance through collaboration, and exploring transgenerational trauma through the intersectional body politics of race, gender, age, class, and disability.

Classes

I have taught capoeira classes and workshops in London at The Place, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios and Dance Attic Studios.

Capoeira Research and Publications

A new publication ‘Capoeira in the Wake: Neurofeminism Moves with the Transgenerational’ is co-written by Beatrice Allegranti and Jonathan Silas and appears in Beatrice Allegranti’s forthcoming book: Moving Kinship: Practicing Feminist Justice in a More-than-Human World (Routledge).

Political Signatures Capoeira research combining dance movement psychotherapy and neuroscience.

Tedx Renegotiating Body Politics via Capoeira with Mestre Poncianinho and Dr Beatrice Allegranti

Publication: Intra-active Signatures in Capoeira: Towards More-than-Human Activism, by Beatrice Allegranti and Jonathan Silas.

What Moves Us: Capoeira research combining dance movement psychotherapy and neuroscience.

Publication: Dancing the Entanglements of Love and Loss, by Beatrice Allegranti.