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.

What's it all about? Capoeira (pronounced cap-wearer) is a Brazilian martial art form, combining self-defence, acrobatics, dance, music and song. It was developed by slaves who used it to disguise the ...

Before you can learn capoeira in Fabio “Fua” Nascimento’s class, you have to learn a little Portuguese. At the beginning of each session, he passes out instruments — a drum, a cowbell, a tambourine — ...

Music is a crucial element in Capoeira. It fulfils multiple roles as it gives energy to the capoeiristas, directs the speed and style of the roda and orally transmits information. The people playing ...

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 ...

Capoeira SC brings Afro-Brazilian martial arts to USC. Capoeira combines rhythmic music and percussion with fighting tecniques. The club embraces students of all skill levels and backgrounds.

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 ...