In 1932, a man named Manoel dos Reis Machado opened the first capoeira school. The sport was still illegal, so Mestre Bimba (as he was known) simply called it the Bahia fighting style. His school ...

The son of Andre da Silva, a well-known capoeira practitioner and pro MMA fighter, da Silva (7-1) has always had combat sports in his blood. But he never really viewed it as a viable career path.

Sapo moved to Toronto from Brazil to teach Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art practice. With his partner Lorena, Sapo lives life to the fullest — his social media videos are filled with ...

With millions of followers worldwide, capoeira is a blend of martial arts, acrobatics and dance choreography. The cultures of the enslaved Africans and the indigenous Brazilians contributed to the ...

Capoeira, a sport that mixes martial art and dance, is one of Brazil's biggest cultural exports to the world. Its practice is steeped in traditions from Angola - and now a new generation of ...

He has performed capoeira in films such as "Only The Strong" (1993) and "Kickboxer 4" (1994), in which he created most of the fight choreography. He is founding director of Capoeira Batuque and ...

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian cultural practice, simultaneously a fight and a dance, that promotes mutual respect and social cohesion. Players form a circle at the centre of which two players engage ...

For Bengalureans who are on the lookout to learn something new – a new artform, a new sport, a new fitness routine, a new ...

In the UCL study, dancers from London's Royal Ballet and experts in capoeira, a Brazilian martial arts form, were asked to watch short videos of either ballet or capoeira dancers performing brief ...

Capoeira practitioner and fight choreographer Amen Santo rates nine capoeira scenes in movies and TV shows for realism in "Black Panther," "The Batman" (2022), and "Blade." Boxing legend "Sugar ...