Explore advanced Capoeira techniques with Mestre Barrão of Grupo Axe Capoeira. Dive into Afro-Brazilian martial arts and enhance your training in this episode from Black Belt Magazine.

ITS UNUSUAL movement — part dance and theater, part martial arts display — first attracted Oakland’s Mary Schindler to the Afro-Brazilian art form capoeira. She wanted to learn how to dance and came ...

SARASOTA -- When Halle Berry pounces across the screen as Catwoman this Friday, watch as she crouches low, kicks high, then jumps, arches and flips in the air. She's playing Capoeira. To prepare for ...

Hip-hop beats from the class next door slip through the Capoeira Evolução studio walls. "Don't worry, we'll drown them out in a few minutes," says capoeira instructor Alex Rodriguez. In minutes, a ...

When you watch the fast-paced moves of the martial artists of Dance Brazil , there's no denying that these are some of the finest athletes in the world. They twist their lean bodies like corkscrews ...

WEST HAVEN >> One week Efraim Silva, 52, was in England balancing on his hands, performing capoeira moves in front of Shakespeare’s childhood home and the next he was in a cap and gown taking the ...

The name may sound like the new beverage of choice for yuppies, but Capoeira is actually an ancient martial art from Brazil, disguised as dance and an arguable precursor to break dancing. The San ...

URBANA – While flying from Madrid to his hometown in Brazil this past summer, University of Illinois Professor Luciano Tosta soon discovered that 60 other passengers were heading to Salvador for one ...