Columbus instructors Elton Brasil and Joseph Lewis teach capoeira at three locations and aim to make classes affordable for all. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art combining music, dance, and ...

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 ...

Nilma Teles de Freitas, an 80-year-old retired teacher in Brazil who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than a decade ago, says she used to fall over all the time. That changed after she ...

Capoeira SC brings Afro-Brazilian martial arts to USC. Capoeira combines rhythmic music and percussion with fighting tecniques. The club embraces students of all skill levels and backgrounds.

In a sunny, wood-floored studio space above the shops in Tacoma’s antique row lie the practitioners of a centuries-old cultural art form. At once a style of martial arts, a spiritual practice and a ...

Action News met up with one Brazilian hard at work right now in Philadelphia, bringing his culture to Americans. It's called capoeira, loosely defined as the Brazilian outlook on life. Inside a small ...

Capoeira, a form of martial art disguised as dance, is now being used in Brazil to help patients with Parkinson's disease. The patients say the specific movements of this once-outlawed exercise are ...

Feijoada, a black bean stew, served with oranges, collard greens and manioc flour, is considered Brazil’s national dish. Jill Wendholt Silva jsilva@kcstar.com This weekend while I was helping to chop ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Nilma Teles de Freitas, an 80-year-old retired teacher in Brazil who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than a decade ago, says she used to fall over all the time. That ...