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 ...

Lisa Willoughby knows plenty of people haven’t heard of capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art form she grew up seeing in Brazil. But, she’s trying to change that through ABADÁ-Capoeira Marin, the ...

From side to side, they moved with rhythm in a nonstop swaying motion that set up kicks, blocks and dodges in the martial art dance known as capoeira. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that ...

NEW HAVEN >> If you’ve ever heard of the Afro-Brazilian martial art called capoeira, and wondered what it was, Thursday is the day to try it, as Connecticut Capoeira Center is offering a community ...

Developed in the 1800s by West African slaves in Brazil, the art of capoeira is a complex and powerful mix of martial arts fighting, dance, music and games. Carlton Jones took part in a New York ...