About Capoeira Roda
Capoeira Roda draws from Bahian capoeira — the Afro-Brazilian martial art-dance played inside the roda, the circle of bodies and instruments where the berimbau sets the rhythm. Vivid roda green and Brazilian-flag gold glow against the sun-baked clay of a Pelourinho courtyard at dusk: warm terracotta earth, never paper-white.
The system is built on motion and the circle. Curved rotation lines, bodies caught mid-ginga, repeating percussive bands, and folk-instrument iconography — berimbau, atabaque, pandeiro. The feel is earthy, percussive, and joyful: bold folk color and hand-painted edges, not tropical-beach cliché or pastel softness.
- Origin
- Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Era
- 1950–1990 (legalization & mestre lineage; roots earlier)
- Key figures
- Mestre Bimba · Mestre Pastinha · Mestre João Grande
- Movements
- Capoeira Angola & Regional · Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage · Brazilian Black resistance culture
Capoeira Roda design spec
Colors
Typography
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