In a dense North Jakarta neighborhood where room to move is scarce, a small acrobatics community is carving out space for children to leap, flip, and imagine bigger futures.

Come discover what Capoeira is at this event full of energy, music, and movement. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that blends dance, acrobatics, and music. The performance, What Is Capoeira?

From side to side, they moved with rhythm in a nonstop swaying motion that set up kicks, blocks and dodges in the martial art dance known as capoeira. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that ...

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this work was to present hypotheses supporting capoeira as an activity aimed at health rehabilitation and maintenance of quality of life. METHODS: Capoeira players (n=245), ...

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 ...

Columbus instructors Elton Brasil and Joseph Lewis teach capoeira at three locations and aim to make classes affordable for all. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art combining music, dance, and ...

Explore one of Chicago’s hidden gems: the Chicago Capoeira Center, where students can learn about capoeira, music, Portuguese and Brazilian heritage. Students attending an event at the Chicago ...

In a sunny, wood-floored studio space above the shops in Tacoma’s antique row lie the practitioners of a centuries-old cultural art form. At once a style of martial arts, a spiritual practice and a ...

Sgt. Brenden Lopez uses a computer on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, for a four-session online intervention designed to improve connection with and promote the care of one’s body. (Christopher ...

Radley da Silva almost stepped away before he even really got going. The son of Andre da Silva, a well-known capoeira practitioner and pro MMA fighter, da Silva (7-1) has always had combat sports in ...