Mestre Dirceu de Angola is a renowned capoeira angola mestre and the founder of the Grupo de Capoeira Angola Liberdade de Vadiar, an international group dedicated to the preservation, practice, and dissemination of traditional capoeira angola.

Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Mestre Dirceu began his journey in capoeira angola in the early 1980s. He is a direct student of Mestre Manoel and Mestre Angolinha, belonging to the lineage of G.C.A.P. (Grupo de Capoeira Angola Pelourinho) under Mestre Morães, one of the most influential figures in modern capoeira angola.

Since 1984, Mestre Dirceu has been actively teaching capoeira angola, developing pedagogical and cultural work in Brazil, Spain, France, and Sweden. His teaching emphasizes tradition, ritual, musicality, ancestry, and the social and historical roots of capoeira angola.

In 2003, he settled permanently in Madrid, Spain, where he established the main headquarters of the Grupo Liberdade de Vadiar, which had originally been founded in Recife and Rio de Janeiro. From Madrid, he has continued to expand the group internationally while maintaining strong ties to the foundational principles of capoeira angola.

Throughout his career, Mestre Dirceu has organized and participated in numerous workshops, encounters, oficinas, and cultural events, always with the goal of preserving capoeira angola as a living Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage and transmitting its values to future generations.

Today, the Grupo de Capoeira Angola Liberdade de Vadiar maintains active nuclei in Madrid, Toulouse, Seville, and Paris, continuing Mestre Dirceu’s work of education, cultural exchange, and resistance through capoeira angola.