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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...