Capoeira, an art form created by enslaved Africans in colonial Brazil, lives on today in a new studio space downtown.

The study of capoeira requires conscientiousness and a commitment beyond just practice, to a broader understanding of the art form’s cultural and historical beginnings.

Travel to Salvador, Bahia, capoeira’s birthplace and mecca for the Afro-Brazilian art form Ricky "Malandro" Lawson II has practiced capoeira for 25 years, traveling often to its birthplace ...

Capoeira, an art form created by enslaved Africans in colonial Brazil, lives on today in a new studio space downtown.

The course of capoeira had changed. Mestre Bimba established a disciplined method of teaching and legitimized capoeira as a form of self-defense and athletics.

Alkire, who has four Capoeira-accomplished daughters and a wife-practitioner, also has classes for little ones, “usually starting around age four,” he smiles. His oldest capoeirista was 94.

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art practiced by 8 million people worldwide. We visited a central Ohio class.

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art practiced by 8 million people worldwide. We visited a central Ohio class.

Several capoeira groups practice in the San José area, and every few weeks they gather in downtown San José’s Parque Morazán, in the park in the northeastern suburb of Guadalupe or in some other space ...

Capoeira changed Brazilian native Mauro Romualdo's life. Now he's passing on the martial art/dance to Utahns.

Centro Capoeira Angola Ouroverde (formerly known as Capoeira Amizade) Flagstaff has built a reputation from local streets all the way to Brazil, the cultural home of the challenging art form ...