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Capoeira – a dangerous dance
A circle of people playing drums and singing, and in the middle of the circle there are people dancing softly but swiftly. The first impression of the Brazilian capoeira is that it must be a ritual of some sort. And in fact that is not far from the truth. But behind those soft movements, which look like peaceful ritual dancing, lies a lethal form of martial art.

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More Singaporeans taking to Brazilian martial art "Capoeira"
by Patwant Singh [Channel NewsAsia]

SINGAPORE : Mention Brazil and many would think of football and samba. But now, the country's martial art called "Capoeira" is fast gaining popularity as it makes fighting more like a "song and dance".

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Capoeira: Brazilian martial arts-dance hybrid makes its way to FIU
by Jose Maya [The Beacon]

They rock back and forth moving from side to side and in and out of the "roda," or circle, to the beat of instruments such as berimbaus, pandeiros and caxixis, while others surround them clapping and singing.

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Traditional heritage threatened as Brazil's capoeira booms internationally
The Associated Press [International Herald Tribune]

SALVADOR, Brazil: The dreadlocked master dings out a twangy rhythm on his bow-shaped "berimbau" and lets loose with a plaintive melody recalling slavery days.

A pair of sweat-glistened men squatting before him reach up to touch the African instrument's resonating gourd. They cross themselves and shake hands before cart-wheeling into the circle formed by the other players, singing and clapping hands.

Exchanging rapid-fire flurries of spinning kicks, feints and flips and keeping time with the syncopated rhythm, the players' feet miss each other's heads by mere fractions of inches: What looks like a dance one minute, looks like a fight the next.

This is capoeira — a 400-year-old martial art disguised as dance, born in the holds of slave ships and on the plantations around Salvador da Bahia, Brazil's first capital.

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Brazilian martial art capoeira makes its way to Champaign
by Melissa Merli [The News Gazette]

URBANA – While flying from Madrid to his hometown in Brazil this past summer, University of Illinois Professor Luciano Tosta soon discovered that 60 other passengers were heading to Salvador for one reason: capoeira.

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