For your viewing pleasure: Mestre Cobra Mansa and Mestre Espiro Marrim play Capoeira Angola. It's vintage footage from I'm-not-sure-when but one of my favorites all the same.
I keep thinking of Contact Improvisation when I see this. Whereas contacters make use of pressure and momentum between bodies to move in/on/with/around each other, Cobra Mansa and Espiro Marrim communicate via pressurized space. Rather than manipulating skin to skin connection to dance together, the capoeiristas inhabit each other's body space. I feel like I'm watching them turn space into matter: expanding, compressing, exploding, disappearing.
Advice for the day: If you can't solve it right-side-up, try looking at it up-side-down.
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