Só Alegria

Só Alegria! is Escola de Capoeira Gent's annual workshop and year-end celebration.

At Só Alegria! we invite our Mestre - Djop Barbosa - along with a special guest, to share their knowledge and experience with ECA Gent and our friends.

This year our special guest is Contra-Mestre Fantasma:

Wellington Santos Ribeiro was born in San Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, on August 13, 1983.

Known in Capoeira circles as Fantasma, he began this art in 1991 in the neighbourhood of Calafate, in the São Pedro São Paulo church. His first teacher was Fábio da Paz, known as Caipora and disciple of Mestre Jogo de Dentro (Jorge Egídio dos Santos) of the Capoeira Group Semente de Jogo de Angola. For ten years he learned the fundamentals of Capoeira's philosophy of art, especially those related to movement, music and ritual.

In 2000, with the relocation of Mestre Jogo de Dentro and the rest of…