PHILADELPHIA (CBS)-- Free lessons were being offered at the Kimmel Center to introduce the public to cultural dance, that can also be used in self-defense. They were feeling the beat at the Kimmel ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Grupo Maculele Academy on Magazine street is ...

Columbus instructors Elton Brasil and Joseph Lewis teach capoeira at three locations and aim to make classes affordable for all. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art combining music, dance, and ...

What's it all about? Capoeira (pronounced cap-wearer) is a Brazilian martial art form, combining self-defence, acrobatics, dance, music and song. It was developed by slaves who used it to disguise the ...

Watch Ana and Andres (Foca) Costas demonstrate the intricate beauty of capoeira and it’s easy to see why they call a workout “play.” There is the music, heavy on drums and the plaintive timbre of the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — After being closed for the past two months due to the coronavirus pandemic, a business all about empowering young people is celebrating opening their doors again. CBP Martial Arts ...

Nilma Teles de Freitas, an 80-year-old retired teacher in Brazil who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than a decade ago, says she used to fall over all the time. That changed after she ...

I wish I could say I started exercising for myself, but as with many things, I did it for a guy. He was a helicopter pilot, and he had once been an expert in the Brazilian martial art of capoeira. I ...

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 ...