With the arrival of the pandemic we had to think seriously about how our organisation would survive and adapt.

 

We came up with ‘I can play Capoeira’ - a learn at home resource for children and parents.  Designed as a home workout to improve and maintain kids fitness.  After securing funding from the Arts Council we set to work creating the video series.

 

We wanted to ensure that our video’s captured the same humour and energy that we approach our in-school lessons with…  Creating something more akin to a children’s tv show rather than some dry instructional video.  It was imperative that no knowledge of Capoeira was needed for the videos so they would be accessible for everyone.

We used different aspects of our curriculum lessons to help create characters, such as the animal shapes - an essential foundation for more complex movements.

 

So our skeleton crew (of two people, Jo and Ashley) set to work through 2 lockdowns.  

Designing, writing, recording, illustrating and editing 6 x 40 minute videos.  It took so long and so much creative energy and while they aren’t perhaps as polished as other productions, we are very proud of them.