Clare Woods reinterprets the genre through oil on aluminum, Coco Young shows pastel-toned pastoral scenes, and Márcia Falcão presents curvaceous figures.

Brazil’s capoeira (ka-poo-ei-ruh) has been growing in popularity since the early 1950s. Fans of the sport are drawn to its acrobatic dancing, powerful attacks, and pulsing rhythms – it’s the ...

Capoeira is an Afrobrazilian ritual consisting of an improvised dance-fight between two individuals surrounded by a group of ...

Upcoming action RPG Deathbound has been on my Steam wishlist for several months, and it recently had a bite of virality thanks to a newly rediscovered clip of one playable fighter using capoeira ...

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian cultural practice, simultaneously a fight and a dance, that promotes mutual respect and social cohesion. Players form a circle at the centre of which two players engage ...

Over some four decades, Márcia Treidler, known to students as Mestra Márcia and to friends as Cigarra, has spread the gospel of capoeira, the acrobatic Afro-Brazilian martial art-cum-dance tradition ...

Capoeira: a dance form, a martial art, and a symbol of resistance among black people in the time of slavery. Wilson Dias/Agência Brasil A dance form, a martial art, and a symbol of resistance ...

The passinho, a dance style created in the 2000s by kids in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, was declared in March to be an ...

Through learning Capoeira, a type of Afro-Brazilian martial arts, 'Project Bantu' seeks to change the lives of vulnerable youth such as refugees in Australia and street children in the Philippines.

Rabbi Capoeira reveals a dramatic and unknown occurrence in the heart of Bnei Brak, the largest ultra-Orthodox city in Israel. The hero of the film is the Capoeira champion of the Mediterranean. He is ...

Capoeira is considered to be one of the symbols of Brazilian culture. With millions of followers worldwide, capoeira is a blend of martial arts, acrobatics and dance choreography. The cultures of ...

In the UCL study, dancers from London's Royal Ballet and experts in capoeira, a Brazilian martial arts form, were asked to watch short videos of either ballet or capoeira dancers performing brief ...