Grupo Candeias

Grupo Candeias was founded at the SESC Club in the university sector in 1977 in Goiania, Goias Brazil.

In that time the group was called Grupo de Capoeira Anglo Regional and the first groups teacher was Carlos Antonio (carlinhos chuchu). In the year 1978 Master Passarinho took on the group changing the name to Grupo de Capoeira Sao Bento Pequeno. Two years later, he decided to leave the SESC in Goiania bringing Grupo Sao Bento Pequeno and part of the student body with him, in the same year Master Suino took on the group that was left, using the name Grupo de Capoeira Anglo Regional temporarily until he could create a new name for the group.

The group grew very fast, and some of the teachers were founding other groups of their own, and due to this the Anglo Regional became an association with a high number of followers and because of that there were a lot of “problems” going on , and questions about how to get all the groups together as one.

Then in 1991 they had a contest to change the name of the group, so all of them could follow the same graduation system, same philosophy and most importantly the same name. Since 1992 all of them started to use only one name, Grupo Candeias de Capoeira.

Nowadays you can find Grupo Candeias in most of Brazil, USA, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, France, Spain, England, the Czech Republic and Ireland. Grupo Candeias is considered one of the most expressive groups of capoeira with over ten thousand students.

Mestre Suino

Mestre Suino

Mestre Suino (Elto Pereira de Brito ) is the founder and president of Grupo Candeias de Capoeira, which has its headquarters in Goiania, Brazil.

Mestre Suino is a graduate in physical education, post-graduate in teaching physical education , and is always seeking ways to improve the standard of his teachers and students and encouraging the study of capoeira history.

Mestre Suino has recorded 3 CDs and 5 Videos with Grupo Candeias, he has also wrote three books; Fundamento da Capoeira, No Caminho do Mestre and Capoeira Religiao.

Mestre Piau

Mestre Piau

Jose Carlos de Oliveira (Mestre Piau) is the president of the Irish branch of Grupo Candeias de Capoeira in Ireland.

He has been learning capoeira for twenty five years. Mestre Piau is responsible for the branches in Ireland and regularly supervises all classes in Ireland.

He is actually teaching capoeira in Limerick for more than five years now.

Professor Pele

Professor Pele

I started to practice Capoeira in 1994 at the age of 16 years old with Mestre Passarinho from Grupo de Capoeira Sao Bento Pequeno, in Inhumas Goias Brazil. In 1997 I went to train with Mestre Piau from Grupo Candeias, also in Inhumas, then I got my graduate belt in 2000, and in that same year I moved to Ireland to work. Then in 2001 I began to teach Capoeira for a small group in Roscommon and two years later I brought Mestre Piau and C.M Mola for the first Capoeira Event of Grupo Candeias in Ireland. In October 2003 I moved to Dublin and I have been teaching Capoeira in Dublin since May 2004.