FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira wraps together dancing, music, movement, and acrobatics into a single routine – and anyone in Fresno can learn how. A group of ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – Normally, instructor Fabio Cosmo da Cunha, known as Mestre Lobinho, travels to different schools and programs in Ann Arbor to teach Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art. Now, all ...

In a sunny, wood-floored studio space above the shops in Tacoma’s antique row lie the practitioners of a centuries-old cultural art form. At once a style of martial arts, a spiritual practice and a ...

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 — ...

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 ...

They are training in capoeira, a blend of martial arts and dance, in the country where some experts believe it originated - Angola. Father Stefano, an Italian priest who came to Angola five years ago, ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. I began playing capoiera a few months ago, and I am terrible at it. Which is pretty perfect. My foray ...

SALVADOR, Brazil (WTHR) - Salvador is known for its Portuguese colonial architecture, spectacular coastline and rabid soccer fans. But the country's former capital is also known for a symbol of ...