Day 2 of a Three-day Gathering at The Place, London - Featuring Puma Camillê

An immersive gathering that blends capoeira, ballroom, meditation, live music, and visual projections to create a sensory and ancestral experience. The proposal is for participants to engage with expanded corporeality, with an open mind, ready to receive the new —connecting with stories, movements, and sounds of resistance.

MOMENT I – Disconnection and Rediscovery (10 mins)
Facilitator: mulika
• Brief guided breathing with theta wave & caxixi soundscape
• Gentle invitation into the body’s awareness
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MOMENT II – Rhythm of Resistance in Motion (15 mins)
Facilitator: Bia
• Quick warm-up via Orixá gestures
• One Itan + embodied response
• Visuals play ambiently, no full narration
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MOMENT III – Capoeira Performance & Transition (5 mins)
Performer: Jhordan
• Visuals of the transatlantic passage
• Embodied capoeira as historical memory
• Seamless segue into the next phase


MOMENT IV – Capoeira & Ancestral Body (35 mins)
Facilitators: Puma Camillê & Jhordan
• Short group exploration of ginga, swing, balance
• Optional small circle practice with simplified bateria
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MOMENT V – Capoeira → Vogue (10 mins)
Performer: Jhordan + collaborators
• Head bow ritual • Music shift with DJ Kai
• Fusion gesture: from one tradition to another
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MOMENT VI – (Self)Recognition & Ballroom (35 mins)
Facilitators: Puma Camillê & Quântika
• One video excerpt
• Ballroom basics (posture, attitude, categories)
• Freestyle runway moments with affirming music


MOMENT VII – Vogue Language in the Body (35 mins)
Facilitator: Puma Camillê
• 3 of the 5 vogue femme elements
• DJ & projected visuals in ambient layer
• Collective improvisation rather than full breakdown

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BREAK (15 Mins)
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MOMENT VIII – Capoeira Roda & Celebration (35 mins)
• Short roda, mestre projections in background
• DJ-led celebration with open runway and improvisation
• Smooth transition into final expressive jam
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CLOSING BALL MOMENT (35 mins)
• Prep & brief ball explanation
• Showcase: runway, face, performance (1 round each)
• Final DJ set and embodied goodbye
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WRAP UP & EXIT (10 mins)

Languages: English and Portuguese

Facilitator & Event Image Credit: @nicfilmes
Video Credit: Tiago Rodriguez

Rhythms of Resistance: Embodiment and Liberation is co-produced by Dr Andrea Maciel, Dr Alex Boyd, Puma Camillê, mulika Ojikutu-Harnett and various UK and Brazil artists.

Intercultural Roots and Puma Camillê Producoes (Brazil) are delighted to have received £75,000 funding from the International Collaboration Grants, run by the British Council to support the creation of new cultural collaborations between UK artists, arts professionals and organisations and their peers around the world.

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