Daniel Saunders as the enslaved African Benedito in Prism Movement Theater's production of Iv Amenti and Jonah Gutierrez's "Circe: The Song of Benedito." Jay Stork / JC Photography Africans enslaved ...

Lemos started his capoeira journey three years ago in his hometown of Brasilia, Brazil’s capital. Moving to Charlottesville, he continued the practice as a way to stay connected to home, which is how ...

This is an opinion editorial by Moon, a Bitcoin Maximalist, writer and practitioner of capoeira. Capoeira, often superficially described as “dance-fighting,” is a self-defense style that arose ...

Created by slaves in the heavily African Brazilian state Bahia, it's a series of warrior moves — kicks, flips and lunges — disguised by music. The sonic ruse let the form be practiced openly in front ...

It’s called capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art practiced by African slaves in Brazil centuries ago and considered illegal to play there until the late 1920s. Since the 1970s, capoeira has built ...

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 ...

SANTA CRUZ — Two students kick and dance around each other while others drum and dance around them. Welcome to Alafia Capoeira, a new studio that teaches the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira. Owner ...

TWELVE INTERACTIVE, a leading Italian console game developer, and SOLUNA, Rome’s foremost capoeira organization met this weekend with motion capture manufacturers ANIMAZOO to work on TWELVE ...