Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a sunny, wood-floored studio space above the shops in Tacoma's antique row lie the practitioners of a centuries-old cultural ...

The film is showing throughout July and August at theaters in the Lev Cinemas chain and other venues around the country. While capoeira, a form of martial arts that incorporates dance, acrobatics, and ...

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.

Ren Powell, the director of Capoeira Males, will join members of his Washington, D.C., based studio at the National Museum of the American Indian as part of the city-wide D.C. Dance Festival this ...

Developed in the 1800s by West African slaves in Brazil, the art of capoeira is a complex and powerful mix of martial arts fighting, dance, music and games. Carlton Jones took part in a New York ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As often happens it seems as though our canine companions have been watching us hoomans practising our Capoeira moves only to pick ...

Suddenly, they explode into a flurry of kicks, spins and other acrobatic tricks. Yet, there is no contact; the misses, near or not, are intentional. This is capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian sport and game.

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 ...

Nilma Teles de Freitas, an 80-year-old retired teacher in Brazil who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than a decade ago, says she used to fall over all the time. That changed after she ...

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