Kid’s Capoeira

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Heidi Wert/”Mae”
Kids Capoeira Instructor

Heidi Beth Wert MSW/DMT is a graduate of Hunter College NYC has 30 years experience in human service, counseling, nursing, mentoring and theater/performance work. A graduate of Hunter College NYC dually certified as a master’s level Social Worker and Dance/Movement Therapist. Co-Founder Drumming for Peace, Co-Founder HeadsUp Lancaster (Helping Educate and Develope Students Unleashing Potential)), former member of drumming ensemble Commit No Violence.

Heidi has performed at peace vigils, schools, theaters, colleges, schools seminaries, festivals, special needs camps, martial arts studios, with Co-Motion Theater, Independent Eye, PA Academy of Music and for Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Her work has been featured by local media, periodicals and the international peace magazine “Sojourners”.

She has studied and trained in Capoeira for the past 6 years independently and with Pennsylvania Capoeira instructor Carlos Rodriguez (Grupo Cordão de Ouro) and has recently completed two weeks intensive graduate training with the National Dance Institute NYC. Heidi is the Kids Capoeira instructor for PA Capoeira. She also blogs on her site MaeWorld!

About Heidi’s programs:

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art developed by African slaves, incorporating elements of music (including singing in Portuguese and playing traditional instruments) acrobatics and creative expression. It’s more than a fight it’s more than a dance! (You’ve got to experience it to understand it!)

Drumming for Peace is designed to teach grade school children drumming as a way of peacemaking and an alternative to violence utilizing practical pedagogy and kinesthetic learning methods, while having a slammin’ good time!

Objective of both programs is to engage children in the principles of cooperation, mutual respect, community building, cross cultural learning, personal discipline and presentation of self as practiced in these art form

Saturdays:
Pennsylvania Capoeira Academy
329 N. Queen St., 3rd Floor
10:30am – 12:30pm

Also check out Heidi at the upcoming Kids and Culture Camp to be held at F&M: click here for more info!

*All class schedules subject to change. In the occasion of visiting mestres, workshops, batizados and other events, classes will typically be canceled. If you have any questions or concerns about class scheduling, please contact Mae at 717-371-7569 or email her here.