Capoeira Programs
Adults
The Masters and Professors at the Washington Capoeira Center have developed the most beginner friendly Capoeira program in the United States. Mestre Mangangá and Professor Galo have crafted an intricate movement curriculum that will allow new students to immediately step into live Capoeira games, while simultaneously challenging students of experience to improve to higher levels of difficulty and nuance.
Capoeira for Kids
Our Tacoma capoeira leader, Professor Galo (Omari Jarmon), brings to Tacoma the teachings of our Seattle headquarters, Seattle Capoeira Center, the largest youth and adults Capoeira program in the Pacific Northwest. In our mixed age format, students ages 4+ learn focus, discipline, and respect through the fundamentals of Capoeira.
Sign Up Online
Select a membership and sign up online.
We have different types of memberships (something for everyone). Members can train at all existing and future locations. All memberships’ access are in addition to our traditional capoeira rodas.
When selecting your membership, please choose the location that best represents your home base.
NOTE: To complete your selection, you will be prompted to login to our student management app, WellnessLiving. Please select the “Sign Up” link beneath the login form to create a login and sign our online waiver before participating.
Weekly Traditional Capoeira Roda in Tacoma
Friday evenings at Tacoma Capoeira Center (inside Urban Grace, The Downtown Church, 902 Market St 3rd Floor, Tacoma, WA 98402 – email info@washingtoncapoeira.com for entrance code) See our calendar for schedule details and updates.
You and your family are welcome to the only weekly capoeira roda in the Pacific Northwest hosted by the Washington Capoeira Center.
We welcome all families to watch and learn something new about a culture from Brazil. This event is great for kids and experienced capoeira players. All capoeira groups are welcome.
This is an intergenerational event that is designed to build and preserve community and culture in the PNW.
This event is free to the public and made possible by 4Culture, Shunpike and Capoeira Life (NPO). Thank you and we hope to play capoeira with you very soon.
Capoeira is an African-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, and music. It was developed in Brazil at the beginning of the 16th century by enslaved Africans seeking to win their liberation. It is known for its quick and complex maneuvers, predominantly using intelligence, guile, strength, speed, and leverage across a wide variety of kicks, spins, flips and other techniques.
The roda is a circle formed by capoeira players and musical instruments, where every participant sings songs and claps their hands following the music. Two capoeira players enter the roda and play the game according to the style required by the musical rhythm.
This event is free and made possible by our not-for-profit wing Capoeira Life, is fiscally sponsored by Shunpike.
About Shunpike
Shunpike is the 501(c)(3) non-profit agency that provides independent arts groups in Washington State with the services, resources, and opportunities they need to forge their own paths to sustainable success.