Capoeira is a dance-like martial art with its roots in 16th-century Brazil. Devised in secret by African slaves as a fighting technique but disguised as a performing art, capoeira came to ...

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 ...

The sport was still illegal, so Mestre Bimba (as he was known) simply called it the Bahia fighting ... capoeira. Now it is enjoyed by millions of people around the world as a dance, a game ...