Hip-hop beats from the class next door slip through the Capoeira Evolução studio walls. "Don't worry, we'll drown them out in a few minutes," says capoeira instructor Alex Rodriguez. In minutes, a ...

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 ...

Capoeira is a lively form of Brazilian martial arts that combines dance, acrobatics and music with fighting techniques. Clubs and classes have been springing up in the United States, and now comes ...

Click here if you have trouble viewing the gallery on a mobile device. About 40 people followed Capoeira moves by instructor Nives Wetzel de Cediel of Omi Tutu school, of Berkeley, during a Juneteenth ...

When you watch the fast-paced moves of the martial artists of Dance Brazil , there's no denying that these are some of the finest athletes in the world. They twist their lean bodies like corkscrews ...

Unlike a sport such as boxing, capoeira does not focus on hurting or injuring an opponent. Instead capoeira is about mastering skills, making sure moves are precise and stylized, and experiencing the ...

LITTLE ROCK — It's a few minutes after 6 on a recent evening at North Little Rock Boys and Girls Club. While a handful of boys play basketball on one end of the gym, participants of Martial Arts ...

WEST HAVEN >> One week Efraim Silva, 52, was in England balancing on his hands, performing capoeira moves in front of Shakespeare’s childhood home and the next he was in a cap and gown taking the ...

The name may sound like the new beverage of choice for yuppies, but Capoeira is actually an ancient martial art from Brazil, disguised as dance and an arguable precursor to break dancing. The San ...

Practicing and teaching capoeira have been two of the driving forces in Anne Pollack's life. She is part of the first generation of women to practice capoeira in the United States and reach the level ...