Word: capoeria
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Harvard students were the primary participants in the show, but members of the greater Cambridge and Boston community participated as well. Outside involvement included a performance of Capoeria, an Afro-Brazilian dance and martial art, by members of the Associacao de Capoeria Mandinguerios dos Palmares, located in Central Square. Their Performers ranged from children to middle-aged men and women...
...Harvard, students have tried to form Capoeira Angola groups in the past with only short-lived success. Eager to work on her skills at college after having discovering Capoeria through gymnastics, one of the first things Krieger asked herself when she arrived at Harvard was, “Where’s the Capoeira?” After a futile search, she teamed up with high school classmate Millstein and this semester they’ve taken it upon themselves to introduce Capoeira to others, with about 15 students currently in the club. “Anybody can learn...
...this new novel, his fifth to be issued in the U.S., Amado, 54, tells tall tales of Bahia, the great, sun-drenched seaport that the Brazilian government calls Salvador. The first of his three themes deals with the astonishing marriage of Corporal Martim-a cardsharp and famed capoeria* fighter-to Marialva, who is as beautiful as a saint in a procession but as dark and devious as Lilith. This story soon blends with one about Negro Massu and the christening of his blue-eyed son. There are problems here, since Ogun, the Voodoo god of iron, has been named godfather...
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