Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian art form and cultural expression that combines fighting, dance, music, and acrobatics, originated ...

they began to send people back to the plantations to spread a message of rebellion and to teach the workers capoeira. Of course slaves weren’t allowed to practise martial arts, but they were ...

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 ...

While capoeira, a form of martial arts that incorporates dance, acrobatics, and music that originated among slaves in Brazil hundreds of years ago, might seem like the polar opposite of the ultra ...