Our Teacher

Julio Cesar Alves de Oliveira “Sanhaco” has been practicing sports including footbal, surf, swimming since the age of six. He first came across capoeira at the age of 13 and has been a member/student of Centro Cultural Senzala de Capoeira – Rio de Janeiro Julio began training directly under Mestre Peixinho – and other masters and teachers in the Senzala group. Spending time in Germany in 1999, Julio began to teach. Returning to Brazil, he established a capoeira school on the island of Ilha Grande. Over the subsequent years the school became an important recreational and cultural resource for children and adults of the community and a focus of interchange with visiting capoeiristas from Brazil, Europe and the US.

Julio moved to the UK in 2004 and now teaches in London, travelling around Europe when he is invited to undertake workshops. Julio returns to Brazil a few times a year to maintain continuity in his work on the island and to make links between his students in the UK with those in Brazil.