Inside the Black Box Theater at Green Street Arts Center a change is taking place. One so small an onlooker wouldn’t necessarily notice. The changes are subtle, but life-transforming, and they come ...

Brazil’s capoeira (ka-poo-ei-ruh) has been growing in popularity since the early 1950s. Fans of the sport are drawn to its acrobatic dancing, powerful attacks, and pulsing rhythms – it’s the only ...

Through an account of capoeira, the Brazilian dance-fight-game, we uncover two simultaneous stories of security: first, the gradual monopolisation of violence by the state; second, a somatic, lyrical ...

The class is mixed, with adults and children, men and women, beginners and advanced, all practising the fundamental move of capoeira, the ginga, in a studio in Melbourne. For a long time, people would ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE – Two Republic Polytechnic (RP) students circle each other, ever watchful, to the sound of traditional Brazilian instruments and singing in Portuguese. Suddenly, they explode into a flurry ...

One of the important changes enacted by Afro-Brazilian activist groups and legislators in recent years was the mandatory incorporation of black history and culture into school curriculums. Perhaps the ...