Capoeira, a form of martial art disguised as dance, is now being used in Brazil to help patients with Parkinson's disease. The patients say the specific movements of this once-outlawed exercise are ...

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art practiced by 8 million people worldwide. We visited a central Ohio class.

Capoeira changed Brazilian native Mauro Romualdo's life. Now he's passing on the martial art/dance to Utahns.

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 ...

How Brazilian Capoeira Evolved From a Martial Art to an International Dance Craze The athletic movements may have inspired modern break dancing ...

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 ...

Capoeira’s roots spread wide in Philadelphia In Philadelphia, there’s a hole-in-the-wall studio that’s hard to walk past without looking in. If you go at the right time — you’ll hear it before you see ...

Who was Mestre Bimba? Google Doodle honours Brazilian martial arts innovator who founded capoeira Fighting style incorporating dance and acrobatics and derived from slaves outlawed until master ...

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