The Invisible Game
Mestre Itapoan Beiramar + Mestra Marreta | SEPTEMBER 6 - 13
The Invisible Game: Cultivating awareness and activation of inner states of collaboration and competition through shared games and practices.
Practicing capturing and recording our work for learning and sharing.
This week long workshop is a collaboration between martial arts and dance through the lens of partnering. We will work with Capoeira, Jiujitsu, music and dance, anatomical knowledge and the overall sense of play.. This is a familiarization of our own spectrum of collaboration and competition: understanding how we are engaging in them, and how they influence what we are capable of.
Workshop Highlights:
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Traveling a spectrum of collaboration to competition using solo practices and partner games
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Building comfort with competition while learning to let go into trust
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Cultivating awareness and playful regulation of various states of nervous system activation
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Partnering skills transferable to any situation where weight is shared
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Sharing practices for building states of awareness useful for capoeira, Jiujitsu, CI
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Cultivation of creativity, adaptability, tonal management
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Learning to enjoy falling, accepting loss, and being surprised
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Using a foundation of collective knowledge from Capoeira, Jiu Jitsu, Contact Improvisation and the Axis Syllabus©
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Practicing recording each other and ourselves for learning and sharing.
SCHOLARSHIP | WORK TRADE | PAYMENT PLAN
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We offer 3 full scholarships for Black, Indigenous and People of Color [BIPOC] folks in each session. As well as 3 Work Trade spots in each session. If interested please select 'BIPOC Scholarship' ticket OR 'Work Trade' ticket when registering via the link below. For more information about the work trade exchange, please see Work Exchange.
CLICK HERE to register with a Payment Plan.
REFUND & CANCELLATION POLICY:
Partial refunds are available up to 10 days prior to the event.
*Please note that our registration software requires a 3% processing fee which will be deducted from your refund. Please note, no refunds will be issued within 10 days of the event. If you need to cancel, email us as soon as possible at communications@thefieldcenter.com so that we may offer the spot to wait-listed participants.
NOTE to BIPOC Scholars and Work Trade:
Please notify us within 10 days of the event if you cannot attend, so that we may offer the spot to wait-listed participants.
*Last minute cancellations with no prior notice may result in ineligibility in the future worktrade of scholarship positions.
If you have questions, please reach out to us anytime at communications@thefieldcenter.com
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Jorge Itapuã Beiramar is a Brazilian Capoeira master, movement educator, filmmaker, and physiotherapist specializing in chiropractic. He is the first master graduated by Nestor Capoeira and has dedicated decades to researching Capoeira as both tradition and living practice. Since 2006, he has been a pioneer in sharing Capoeira worldwide through his Abeiramar online channel, expanding access to consistent and in-depth study beyond physical borders.
He is the creator of the Organic Flow Method, an integrative approach to movement in which physiotherapy plays a central role. Drawing from his clinical background, he bridges rehabilitation science with Capoeira, Bioginástica, Yoga, and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, creating a system that refines body awareness, structural integrity, mobility, strength, and play. His pedagogy emphasizes ritual, rhythm, technical precision, and autonomy, framing physical practice as a path toward embodied intelligence and long-term health.
A Gracie Jiu-Jitsu black belt, he also developed Jiu-Jitsu Consciente, an educational program focused on self-confidence, emotional regulation, and non-violent self-defense for children and adults.
In addition to his work as a teacher, Itapuã is the director of the feature film Capoeira, um passo a dois, an artistic exploration of the philosophy and poetics of the Capoeira game. He is the founder and director of Capoeira Beiramar School, based in Nova Friburgo, where he leads ongoing programs in Capoeira, Organic Flow, and Jiu-Jitsu Consciente.
Through his teaching, filmmaking, and research, Jorge Itapuã Beiramar continues to bridge ancestral knowledge and contemporary practice, cultivating movement as art, education, and conscious living.
Nuria Latifa Bowart is a professional dancer and movement artist; a student, practitioner, and teacher of Capoeira with the rank of Mestra. Her lineage is UCA with Mestre Acordeon, Mestre Ra, and Mestra Suellen.
Nuria is also a practicing manual therapist and Certified Rolfer®; a movement educator authorized as a Teacher and Certifier within the Axis Syllabus© international research community; and a mother of two.
Nuria holds over 25 years of vocational research and practice across multiple therapeutic, martial, and artistic disciplines rooted in the expressive, relational, and healing capacities of the human body. She is deeply engaged with Western somatics, choreographic and improvisational movement arts, functional anatomy research, and the art of teaching. She is co-founder of the Field Center in southern Vermont, a residency and pedagogical center for contemporary heterodox arts practices. She is also a member of the Berkeley Capoeira Collective in Berkeley California. Nuria teaches across the United States and Internationally.