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 ...

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.

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 ...

Capoeira, a form of martial art disguised as dance, is now being used in Brazil to help patients with Parkinson's disease.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside a gymnasium at the Linden Community Center in Columbus, Elton Brasil and Joseph Lewis greet their students as they warm up ...

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 ...

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 ...