WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University Spanish professor says the best way to understand the African-Brazilian influenced Capoeira is by comparing its deceptive elements to what it is not – dance, ...

When Garrett MacDonald was a sophomore in college, he missed how active he was in high school and decided to YouTube “”something a little less competitive, but still physical.”” What he found was ...

Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, was practiced by slaves who were brought to work on Brazilian plantations. Disguising the martial art as a dance, the former slaves would practice this art ...

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that was invented by slaves to disguise fighting with dance. Today it’s seen as a beautiful and soulful form of art, and it has caught on all over the world. Dalen ...

For 10 years, Mariano Silva has served as the Contra Mestre of Santa Barbara’s very active and dynamic Capoeira Batuque. For those not already in the know about this popular form of Brazilian dance, ...

ITS UNUSUAL movement — part dance and theater, part martial arts display — first attracted Oakland’s Mary Schindler to the Afro-Brazilian art form capoeira. She wanted to learn how to dance and came ...

ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco (ACSF) was founded in the Mission District 30 years ago this month by the Bay Area's own Márcia Treidler (a.k.a. "Mestra Cigarra") who serves as Artistic Director. To ...

This is an opinion editorial by Moon, a Bitcoin Maximalist, writer and practitioner of capoeira. Capoeira, often superficially described as “dance-fighting,” is a self-defense style that arose ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) Capoeira is a combination of many things. "It's art form that incorporates every art possible," explained Marcia Treidler. "It's a martial art. It's acrobatics. It's dance. It's ...

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 ...