Body Games - Capoeira and Ancestry

The documentary Body Games - Capoeira and Ancestry is one of the major outcomes of the research project The Angolan Roots of Capoeira: Transatlantic Links of a Globalised Performing Art.

The film is co-directed by Richard Pakleppa, Professor Matthias Röhrig Assunção and capoeira master Cobra Mansa, and follows Cobra Mansa on travels through Angola and Brazil in search of the historical roots of his art. The journey explores deeper connections between slavery, identity and society.

Find out more: essex.ac.uk/history/research/angolan-roots.aspx