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, ...

LITTLE HAITI (CBSMiami) – Capoeira is described as a story of celebration and the ability to express oneself. It involves music, fighting, dancing, intuition, rich history and breaking a sweat.

The rhythmic whir of Brazilian music and traditional Portuguese chanting lasted for hours one recent Thursday night in downtown San José’s Parque Morazán. A crowd circled around the group of musicians ...

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 ...

In a one-room studio on Springfield Avenue in Champaign at the Cordao de Ouro Capoeira Academy, a small group of students – most of them graduate students – assembles nightly to practice the martial ...

Thirty people will get a chance to learn capoeira, a Brazilian martial art that combines music, wrestling, dance, rhythm and movement. The classes will be conducted by Ammar Latif, who has been ...

Classes are taught by Mestre Zumbi. We cover stretching, strength building, capoeira movements (kicks, defense, motion, acrobatics), capoeira instruments, songs, and maculele. Beginners are welcome.

SARASOTA -- When Halle Berry pounces across the screen as Catwoman this Friday, watch as she crouches low, kicks high, then jumps, arches and flips in the air. She's playing Capoeira. To prepare for ...