Mestre Fantasma

Simon has been practicing and teaching capoeira for over 35 years.  I’m realizing that my continued pursuit of recreating a genuine capoeira culture in London has reached its goal.  London is a perfect place for capoeira and through its practice you can empower yourself and others.  The formation of our monthly roda called Urban Ritual with its open door policy has influenced many students to visit and collaborate ; building group cohesion in London and beyond.  My BLOG

I recently became interested in the dance elements of capoeira and have developed a method of teaching influenced by folkloric Cuban dance that is unique in Capoeira.

Graduate 2009  School for Social Entrepreneurs   Block year with the view to use Afro Brazilian dance and Capoeira as a social tool for change and a better society.

The picture above was taken in ’93 when I first visited Brazil.  I consider myself very luck to have been to Brazil yearly since then and to have caught the end of the Capoeira era that was not influenced by the globalisation.