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Jelon Vieira is a Brazilian choreographer and teacher who, in 2000, achieved recognition by New York City's Brazilian Cultural Center as a pioneer in presenting to American audiences the Afro-Brazilian art and dance form, Capoeira.
Jelon Vieira: Artistic Director, DanceBrazil. As a 10-year-old boy in Brazil, Jelon Vieira began to study Capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art that is central to his life philosophy. In the mid-1970s, after joining a Brazilian folk dance company, he went on tour to Europe.
Since his arrival in the United States in the 1970s, Vieira has been at the forefront of promoting and presenting traditional capoeira through performing, teaching, and providing a wealth of knowledge and expertise on Brazilian culture to scholars and historians.
16 de may. de 2012 · Tiba: My name is Tiba Vieira. I am a Capoeira professor in New York of Capoeira. With me I have Master Jelon, my Capoeira master, and he is the founder of Capoeira Luanda.
Much Gratidão Mestre Jelon Vieira. I wrote this cantiga in 2012 to show my gratitude to our great master Jelon Vieira the pioneer of Capoeira in the United States.
Jelon Vieira es un coreógrafo y profesor brasileño que, en el año 2000, logró el reconocimiento del Centro Cultural Brasileño de la ciudad de Nueva York como pionero en presentar al público estadounidense el arte y la cultura afrobrasileña. forma de baile, Capoeira.
Mestre Jelon. In September 2008, Jelon Vieira was awarded one of eleven National Heritage Fellowships, the country’s highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. As founder and artistic director of The Capoeira Foundation and DanceBrazil, he and the late Loremil Machado were the first artists to bring traditional Afro-Brazilian dance and ...
