Capoeira is not a costume to be worn at any given time or according to the occasion. Capoeira is the skin itself ! - Mestre Acordeon Founder of the Capoeira Arts Foundation and UCA – United Capoeira Association BIO Ubirajara Guimarães Almeida (born in 1943), better known as Mestre Acordeon, is an iconic Capoeira master from Bahia, Brazil who teaches in Berkeley, CA. His international reputation as a respected capoeira master, performer, musician, organizer, and author is built upon fifty years of active practice, as well as research into the origins, traditions, political connotations, and contemporary trends of Capoeira. Mestre Acordeon has travelled extensively promoting Capoeira outside Brazil. Mestre Acordeon was a student of the legendary Mestre Bimba in the late 1950s and began teaching Capoeira in the early 1960s. He founded the Grupo folclorico da Bahia in 1966 that performed the show Vem Camará: Histórias de Capoeira in the Teatro Jovem in Rio de Janeiro. The
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