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If one say:
“- Lets practice the same Capoeira that was done a 100 years ago.”
It's idle talk!
We can't reach that far.
It's only a semantic matter,
a matter of politic attitude.
The more realistic attitude is to say that
we won't bring new influences to Capoeira; they are unnecessary.
“- Capoeira hasn't grown, it has swollen.”;
But lets allow the art grow, develop, and repeat reality.
And be capable to satisfy the actual needs of its tenets.
There are people saying:
“- Capoeira hasn't grown, it has swollen.”;
“Today's Capoeira is a lot worse than the one from the past.”;
“Today's Capoeira is more violent.”
I can't understand these judgements
of value regarding Capoeira.
First of all, “traditional” is not something that is quantifiable,
no one, or nothing, out of the blue,
is more traditional than someone else.
More traditional in which way?
Because the majority of the things we see
in Capoeira today are recent traditions,
inventions from a certain period of time.
No one knows, no one has access to a Capoeira
that projects itself far back in the past.
There was no video documentation, no movie production...
Capoeira's oral traditional doesn't reach that far in the past...
The written traditions even now...
So, in truth, everything we know,
everything we talk about Capoeira
is always a process reflecting the actual time.
So, in my view there are...
Capoeira transforms itself, it has this capacity of not stagnating,
if we say “Capoeira is not the same any more”
and try to stagnate it, Capoeira will dye.