The name may sound like the new beverage of choice for yuppies, but Capoeira is actually an ancient martial art from Brazil, disguised as dance and an arguable precursor to break dancing. The San ...

Capoeira combines techniques in evasion, kicks, and acrobatic moves, often executed with aplomb and flair while moving to the rhythm of music MANILA, Philippines – Imagine learning martial arts, but ...

Capoeira is a lively form of Brazilian martial arts that combines dance, acrobatics and music with fighting techniques. Clubs and classes have been springing up in the United States, and now comes ...

Brazil is well known as the home of the dance-like martial art capoeira, but its roots in fact lie across the Atlantic. In Angola, one man is trying to resurrect an older style to help people ...

SINGAPORE – Two Republic Polytechnic (RP) students circle each other, ever watchful, to the sound of traditional Brazilian instruments and singing in Portuguese. Suddenly, they explode into a flurry ...

Juan Goncalves-Borrega, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Two young men dressed in white kneel on the ground, ready to begin their duel. Eyes lock onto those of his opponent.

In a sunny, wood-floored studio space above the shops in Tacoma’s antique row lie the practitioners of a centuries-old cultural art form. At once a style of martial arts, a spiritual practice and a ...

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In this dance studio in Rio de Janeiro, a physiotherapist is giving her patients with Parkinson's disease capoeira lessons. They say it's making a real difference to their lives. All the participants ...