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Brazilian Culture: Got Ginga?

Brazilian Culture: Got Ginga?

posted on November 24, 2013

If you’ve practiced capoeira, you may have heard of ginga. It’s the base move from which all others are made, you know, that back and forth, side-to-side, swinging motion you see whenever someone starts to do capoeira.

In informal Brazilian Portuguese, however, ginga signifies a cool way of moving, freely and loosely. The Brazilian footballer Robinho is said to have ‘ginga’ when he plays. A hustler, or malandro, might also have ginga when he moves, kind of like a swagger.

If you’re neither of the three types above, don’t lose hope yet. If you dance well, then you may have ginga, too. As for whether it can be taught, well, only a Brazilian can answer that…

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About Adam Lee

Adam is a writer and a researcher who has studied Brazilian culture for over a decade and created several Brazil-themed blogs going back to 2008. Having taught himself Portuguese, he put it to practical use by spending three years doing Brazil on a budget (and living in favelas), from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon.

He now resides in Lisbon, Portugal, developing a startup and dreaming about having a beachside B&B in the Northeast of Brazil.

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  1. AJEET KALRA

    November 7, 2017 at 7:55 am

    Just saw the movie on Pele in 1958 when Brazil won the World Cup Football they won because of Pele’s GINGA style…… the beautiful game

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