WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A Purdue University Spanish professor says the best way to understand the African-Brazilian influenced Capoeira is by comparing its deceptive elements to what it is not – dance, ...

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.

In small, steamy gyms across the Valley, groups of dedicated dancer-fighters called capoeiristas practice their own form of conversation. Their language is capoeira [kah-po-EH-rah], an acrobatic style ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watching instructor Brian Ashbrook spin on his shoulders, jump and kick his way through several routines at the Aikibudokan Academy in Danbury, it is easy to feel mesmerized by the martial art that ...