Afro-Brazilian Ensemble was started by Contra Mestre Fabiano Lucas in 2005. He has been doing capoeira for over 25 years and he has been teaching in CT since 2003. Fabiano was born in Braganca Paulista, a small town in Sao Paulo, on April 30th,1980. He always had a passion for sports and tried a lot of different ones (always by charity of others) like Judo, soccer, basketball and break dance. It was during his time of break dancing that he incidentally discovered his love for capoeira.