ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco (ACSF) was founded in the Mission District 30 years ago this month by the Bay Area's own Márcia Treidler (a.k.a. "Mestra Cigarra") who serves as Artistic Director. To ...

It's a fusion of old and new worlds: ancient dance and wearable tech. Mexe (which means "move" in Portuguese) traces the story of capoeira martial arts/dance in a live performance augmented by ...

In the Humboldt Park studio of Gingarte Capoeira, instructor Marisa Cordeiro, five foot six and 133 pounds, squares off against a muscular male student who must outweigh her by 60 pounds. As the two ...

Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art with a history embedded in slavery, combines elements of dance and music in its performances, and Houstonians will have a chance to see it up close this week. The ...

Black History Month is underway and to celebrate, Jersey City’s Afro-American Historical Society Museum will host a Capoeira Angola performance. The performance is by Mestre Joao Grande and will be ...

ABADÁ-Capoeira San Francisco (ACSF), the Bay Area's first non-profit organization dedicated to recovering, preserving, and promoting Afro-Brazilian arts and culture, will mark 30 years in the Mission ...

Ren Powell, the director of Capoeira Males, will join members of his Washington, D.C., based studio at the National Museum of the American Indian as part of the city-wide D.C. Dance Festival this ...

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 ...