Mestre Iuri Santos.
North Star Capoeira Group has it roots in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, where our Mestre Iuri H. Santos was born and trained in Capoeira since the age of fourteen.
He began studying Capoeira Angola at Forte Santo Antonio in the group Filhos de Angola — today the Forte da Capoeira. His Mestre (M. Marrom) founded his own group (Grupo Acupe), and later the A.B.C.A. (Brazilian Association of Capoeira Angola) in which Iuri was a Coordenador de Bateria (music coordinator).
In 1997 he was accorded the status of Contra-Mestre from his Mestre in Grupo Acupe, the first in the group to achieve this rank. In 1998 he founded the first branch of Grupo Acupe in Indiana (U.S.A). In 2005 M. Iuri founded Grupo de Capoeira Angola Estrela do Norte -- the North Star Capoeira Angola group.
Today M. Iuri Santos teaches in Bloomington and in Indianapolis. He is also a Professor at Indiana University Bloomington and at IUPUI in Indianapolis. His group has grown and expanded its reach to include Portland, Oregon (Instrutor Jaskirat), and New Orleans, Louisiana (Instrutor Ivan Watkins).
