What do you get when you combine martial arts, dance, acrobatics and music? ADVERTISING What do you get when you combine martial arts, dance, acrobatics and music? An interactive game of Brazilian ...

Clad all in white, dancers encircle in a roda, erupting into cartwheels and swing kicks near the Huntington Beach Pier. The movements blend into a fluid form of acrobatic non-contact fighting to the ...

On a warm Monday evening, students sweat it out indoors as they rock their bodies back and forth, swaying from side to side as they alternately step back with the left and right foot. To the sound of ...

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 ...

Americans’ love of the Blues, of pizza and tacos, of tribal tattoos, or even our devotion to sports teams’ Indian insignias may be thought of by some as cultural appropriation — a kind of stealing of ...

While combat may seem like the odd one out in the list above, it is an equal component of the Brazilian martial art and art form capoeira, which was developed 400 years ago in Brazil. Steeped in ...

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 among ...

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.

Through an account of capoeira, the Brazilian dance-fight-game, we uncover two simultaneous stories of security: first, the gradual monopolisation of violence by the state; second, a somatic, lyrical ...

WALNUT CREEK — On a warm Monday evening, students sweat it out indoors, swaying from side to side as they alternately step back with the left and right foot. To the sound of upbeat music, students ...