Word: capoeira
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...HOUSE ANSIEDADE BUILT. An original movement thesis piece by Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03. In Brazil, the party never stops, and there are samba, bossa nova, capoeira, caipirinhas and palm trees. Racism? Heck no. Americans? Welcomed with open arms. But there’s more than meets the eye. Reality and fantasy collide to produce disillusionment, and this play combines folklore, theater, music and movement in relation to cultural anxiety in Brazil and in the United States. Friday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, Mar. 1, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Free...
...HEAVYWEIGHT Thai kickboxing twins Maki and Aki didn't see the guitar coming. Billy Chaka, ace investigative reporter for Youth in Asia teen magazine and expert in kung fu, kenpo, Tae-kwondo, jeet kune do, capoeira and "many of the esoteric brands between," outfought the duo with a cherry-red Gibson and plunged back into Tokyo's pulsating streets. His mission: to figure out what a little bird had to do with the deaths of a night porter in Hokkaido and the country's most beloved rock star...
...Roots and Revision,” a performing arts showcase Saturday night at Lowell Lecture Hall, The Kuumba Singers performed with Sidra Bell Dance New York and the Capoeira Ensemble of the Brazilian Cultural Center of New England...
...each. Among the highlights of the 2001 season: In Praise of the Human Spirit, a work of movement, song and stories by the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; and Herbin (Tamango) Van Cayseele and his Urban Tap in Caravane, which fuses tap, jazz, funk, hip-hop, DJ, Brazilian capoeira and African stilt dancing...
...Harvard Capoeira group performed a sparring routine including series of flips, handstands and kicks that make up the Brazilian martial art called capoeira...