Two men wearing dried grass skirts and body paint rushed toward each other, each brandishing a pair of long wooden sticks, while a semicircle of white-clad spectators clapped. The men began to jump, ...
Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ Argyros Plaza in Costa Mesa was a scene of mass movement Tuesday evening, as locals participated in a dance tradition dating back to the 16th century that seamlessly ...
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, ...
VAIL, Colorado – Many elements of Brazilian lifestyle have found their way around the world, and lucky for us, some have just arrived in the Vail Valley. Take Capoeira, for example. It may not be the ...
Clad all in white, dancers encircle in a roda, erupting into cartwheels and swing kicks near the Huntington Beach Pier. The movements blend into a fluid form of acrobatic non-contact fighting to the ...
Join the conversation here and subscribe to our YouTube channel to never miss a new episode. I first became aware of capoeira at a young age, through Eddy Gordo in the video game Tekken, and I ...
The dance began with the rhythm of drums, a tambourine and a man chanting in Portuguese as dancers dressed in white clapped and formed a semi-circle. A man played an instrument called a berimbau. Two ...
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Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts ("The Wallis") presents DanceBrazil (Jelon Vieira, Artistic Director) for three performances only, February 6-7, 2015 in the Bram Goldsmith Theater. The ...