When local group Axé Capoeira Arizona says “Bring your Axé,” they’re not referring to the bladed chopping instrument. Axé (pronounced AH-shay) is a Yourba word meaning “positive energy,” and that’s ...

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, ...

The celebrated Afro- Brazilian dance company Viver Brasil returns to Sierra Madre Playhouse with two performances of Rezas e Folhas (Prayers and Leaves), a genre-defying ritualistic work with live ...

Upon a chance viewing of a dance company from the Brazilian city of Salvador in the state of Bahia while studying for her master’s degree in dance ethnology at UCLA in 1986, Linda Yudin’s life changed ...

Like African slaves in 19th-century Brazil, University student Camila Esposel practices capoeira. But, unlike the slaves, she does the dance to keep in touch with her culture, not as a form of ...

Balé Folclórico da Bahia aims to give an authentic taste of Afro-Brazilian history and culture with every high kick and undulation that unfolds onstage. Using drumming and religious chanting as part ...

Shimon Attie, "Adriana and Hitler (Time Lapse Dance)" (2021), UV cured acrylic on panel (all images courtesy the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery) The centerpiece of the exhibition debuts his newest ...