The Brazilian Who Brought Capoeira to Bucharest

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The Brazilian who brings capoeira to Bucharest, from Romanian-Insider.com:

In 2008, Minhoca, then a man in his ‘20s, with strong arms and some hardly visible scars on his face from the days when capoeira was raw and aggressive, but with a soft voice, came to a Bulgarian resort on a two-year contract. He performed in a show combining capoeira elements with other dance elements originating from Africa. During his stay in Bulgaria, he met a Romanian guy who said that he would help him start a capoeira school in Bucharest, and that he’d have a place to stay. But that guy never picked up the phone again, so Minhoca found himself in Romania: a country where he didn’t know anybody. He had to build everything from scratch, and along the road he met some of the people that now are his students. They helped him create the capoeira school in Bucharest.
José António, also known as Minhoca, runs the Academia Alemar Bucuresti in Bucharest, Romania under the guidance of Mestre Catitu. Visit their official website or Facebook page for more information.