Mestre Sérgio Xocolate & Suzanne Roberts Smith

Traditional Capoeira & Percussion from Pernambuco Brasil
with Mestre Sérgio Xocolate & Suzanne Roberts Smith

Join Mestre Sérgio Xocolate for an authentic Capoeira workshop, featuring rich traditional movements, music, drumming, and call-and-response songs. Students will have the opportunity to showcase their learnings of an original body percussion sequence via spotlights up on stage.

Audience members will also experience important stories of Afro-Indigenous cultural expression and preservation from the North East of Brazil. The artists explain how this martial art was created by African Nations inside of Brazil as a key form of cultural resistance.

Sérgio performs songs in English and Portuguese, with words in YORÙBÁ (a west African language) and TUPÍ (an Indigenous language pre European contact and now almost extinct). Workshop partner, percussionista and storyteller Suzanne Roberts Smith provides audience engagement and workshop facilitation in English and/or French.