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electriclandFour-day weekend!
Dropped by the jazz fest last night on my way home from work. Didn't stay long because the weather had cooled off and I was freezing (skinny tank top, no jacket).
Anybody else seen those people with T-shirts reading something-or-other (Capoeira?) Angola?
How it looks from the outside:
10 or 12 people stand in a circle. A few of them have instruments -- drums, tambourines, rattles -- but most of them are just doing a very simple rhythmic call-and-response song in a language I don't recognize. In the centre of the circle, in time with the song, two or three people are doing a dance that looks something like tai chi and something like gymnastics and something like breakdancing, feinting back and forth and looking as though they're trying to knock one another off their feet but always just missing. Sometimes one gets tired and someone else from the circle takes their place.
I've seen them in a few places around town, but I've no idea if they're a cult or a martial arts school or what.
While waiting for a bus I saw a man walking calmly along the sidewalk carrying a fully inflated air mattress. Got home at 11 and went straight to bed for a change.
Dropped by the jazz fest last night on my way home from work. Didn't stay long because the weather had cooled off and I was freezing (skinny tank top, no jacket).
Anybody else seen those people with T-shirts reading something-or-other (Capoeira?) Angola?
How it looks from the outside:
10 or 12 people stand in a circle. A few of them have instruments -- drums, tambourines, rattles -- but most of them are just doing a very simple rhythmic call-and-response song in a language I don't recognize. In the centre of the circle, in time with the song, two or three people are doing a dance that looks something like tai chi and something like gymnastics and something like breakdancing, feinting back and forth and looking as though they're trying to knock one another off their feet but always just missing. Sometimes one gets tired and someone else from the circle takes their place.
I've seen them in a few places around town, but I've no idea if they're a cult or a martial arts school or what.
While waiting for a bus I saw a man walking calmly along the sidewalk carrying a fully inflated air mattress. Got home at 11 and went straight to bed for a change.
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May be teaching my grandmother to suck eggs ...
Date: 2003-06-28 03:08 pm (UTC)When I've seen it practiced in modern North America (on television) it's usually in a singing and drumming circle, so if you're looking for confirmation, yup.
If you're just saying it's cool, then also, yup.
I frequently get the named confused with that other fascinating Brazillian entity, the largest rodent on the planet, whose name escapes me.
Re: May be teaching my grandmother to suck eggs ...
Date: 2003-06-28 04:21 pm (UTC)And re your subject line, no you're not, thanks for the info. I still don't get the Angola connection, or the fact that they have zebras on their shirts, but aside from that it all makes a lot of sense...
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Date: 2003-06-30 07:15 am (UTC)