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 ...

Developed in the 1800s by West African slaves in Brazil, the art of capoeira is a complex and powerful mix of martial arts fighting, dance, music and games. Carlton Jones took part in a New York ...

Picture someone like Jet Li or Chuck Norris punching and kicking the bejesus out of some goon … then breaking into a lively song and dance about it. Such is the unusual mixture of art and self-defense ...

When junior Kyle Deal kicked his girlfriend in the face, there were no hard feelings - it was just another Monday at the University's capoeira club, which practices Afro-Brazilian "dance fighting." ...

“The best fight is the one you can talk your way out of.” Spoken like a true Brazilian, Domingos Begalli says he would prefer not to fight. He would prefer to duck punches and skirt danger. It’s this ...

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 ...

Legs in the air, rolling and bouncing, people gather to play rather than face off in a fight. A combination of music and a style that is more dance than battle, the martial art Capoeira grows in ...

Ren Powell, the director of Capoeira Males, will join members of his Washington, D.C., based studio at the National Museum of the American Indian as part of the city-wide D.C. Dance Festival this ...

Capoeira is a lively Brazilian martial art that combines dance, acrobatics and music with fighting techniques. Clubs and classes have been springing up in the United States, and now comes Capoeira ...