Mestre Cobra Mansa is a recognized Capoeira Angola master based in Bahia, Brazil, who has extensive experience teaching and performing capoeira around the world. He participated in the revival of ...

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, ...

They are training in capoeira, a blend of martial arts and dance, in the country where some experts believe it originated - Angola. Father Stefano, an Italian priest who came to Angola five years ago, ...

Ed Luna leads at the Tribo Afro Bahiana de Copoeira Angola Tradicional Tuesday. In a small dark rotunda in Sullivant Hall, one of the best kept secrets at Ohio State is hidden. Although gaining ...

SANTA CRUZ — Two students kick and dance around each other while others drum and dance around them. Welcome to Alafia Capoeira, a new studio that teaches the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira. Owner ...

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 ...