in partnership with Remainders Creative Reuse, a 501(c)(3) organization
FIU Los Angeles Teaching Team
About our school:
FIU Los Angeles is a daughter school of Família Irmãos Unidos (FIU) headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, and is supervised by CM Arthur Fiu. FIU was founded in 1980 by Mestre Natal and CM Arthur Fiu now runs the international group with his two siblings, Mestre Sidney and Contra-Mestra Natalia, always with the oversight and support of their mother, Dona Andrea Teixeira.
Contra-Mestre Arthur Fiu
Contra-Mestre Arthur Fiu is from São Paulo, Brazil, and is one of the most well-known capoeira athletes in the world. He has traveled the globe competing, teaching, and sharing the Afro-Brazilian arts of capoeira, samba de roda, and coco de roda. He has won two world championships as well as several other national and regional competitions and has been a sponsored Red Bull Athlete since 2018. He believes in capoeira as a tool for social change and often cites the law of return: what you put into something will come back to you. CM Arthur Fiu is now living in California, overseeing the FIU branch in Pasadena, CA in partnership with Remainders Creative Reuse.
Meet The Rest of our Team
Professor Saci
São Paulo, Brazil
Instrutora Laranjeira
Insta. Laranjeira, also known as Amaris, has been practicing capoeira since 2005 and loves the community aspect of capoeira. She is the business director of FIU Los Angeles and opened its doors in partnership with Arthur Fiu and Remainders Creative Reuse in September 2024.
Mestre Sidney
São Paulo, Brazil
Instrutora Iúna
Insta. Iúna has been practicing capoeira since 2010 and loves the musical aspect of capoeira. She was the first student to bring Arthur Fiu to the USA and opened the doors for him to build partnerships that led to the creation of FIU Los Angeles.