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 ...

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that integrates fighting with dance, ritual, and gravity defying acrobatics. It is marked by deft, tricky movements often played on the ground or completely ...

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.

In a Mission District studio, a barefooted Brazilian woman in white pants steps to the front of a group of about 30 students. Speaking almost entirely in Portuguese, the instructor dives into 90 heart ...

Join the conversation here and subscribe to our YouTube channel to never miss a new episode. I first became aware of capoeira at a young age, through Eddy Gordo in the video game Tekken, and I ...

What’s the best thing about Capoeria? “It breaks all barriers of race, gender and makes people from all types of class get together making it one of the most mixed cultural sport,” says Professor ...

CEBU, Philippines - Many of the songs that are sung during a capoeira are narrative. Capoeiristas sing about a wide variety of subjects: about history or stories of famous capoeiristas, about life or ...

“Capoeira is all about the energy,” Abdul says, as we meet him for a brief introduction to the art form. A fast, versatile martial art, Capoeira emphasizes on using the lower body to kick, sweep and ...

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