プランBはない:Axé Capoeira Chicagoの内側
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ブラジル人ではないカポエイリスタで、約28年にわたって指導し、Grupo Axé CapoeiraのMestre Barrãoのもとでメストランドの称号を持っています。1993年の映画『Only the Strong』でカポエイラを知り、Barrãoのもとで練習するために55時間バスに乗ったことで、生涯をかける決意をしました。2009年、「プランBはない」という一つの信念でシカゴにアカデミーを開きました。
アペリード(カポエイラ名)はGata。Bambuの妻で、文化活動の共同リーダーです。2013年からアカデミーのダンスグループを率い、協力関係にある別団体のサンバスクール、Escola de Samba Chicagoを運営しています。Bambuはカメラの前で、ビジネスが最も苦しい時期を乗り越えられたのは彼女のおかげだと話しています。付き合い始めた頃、アカデミーの電気が止められた際に、彼女が料金を払って道場を開け続けたのです。
About the Gym
Axé Capoeira Chicago is a capoeira academy in West Town with a second location in Rolling Meadows, founded by Mestrando Bambu (Steven Kolhouse), who has taught the art for roughly 28 years and holds the rank of Mestrando—one tier below master—under Mestre Barrão, founder of the global Grupo Axé Capoeira.
The academy treats Brazilian culture as the product, not an add-on: students learn the martial art alongside the music, the movement, the Portuguese, and the history that capoeira was born from. Bambu teaches capoeira while his wife Jennifer "Gata" Kolhouse runs the samba side through her own Escola de Samba Chicago, the two collaborating across performances and events. Classes run from kids as young as three up to a first-timer who was 75 on his opening day.
📍 Location (primary): 1543 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642 (West Town)
📍 Location (second): 2180 S Plum Grove Rd, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
📱 Phone: (872) 222-8813
Summary
This is the story of a Hoosier who fell for a Brazilian art nobody around him was doing and never looked back. Mestrando Bambu saw the capoeira film Only the Strong as a kid, finally started training at Indiana University in 1998, then took a 55-hour bus ride to a workshop in Canada and came home certain: "there's nothing else in this world that I want to do."
He taught to empty rooms in Indiana college towns for years before moving to Chicago in 2004, where it "instantly took off," and opened his first academy in 2009. Today he and his wife Jennifer—apelido Gata—run a two-location school built on the conviction that capoeira only works when you teach all of it at once.
