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Casting a Hollywood action movie these days is like the old ritual of ordering Chinese food: choose one from column A and one from column B. In column A is a martial-arts star imported from Hong Kong; in column B, a rising young African-American, usually a hip-hop performer or stand-up comic. Studio bosses have decided that the ideal action recipe, like a good Sichuan dinner, is a mix of flavors, spices and colors. And where are the white stars? Don't need 'em in the new East-West rainbow coalition. To get into a decent fight...
TREASURES OF SIAM. Get a taste of culture at the Harvard-MIT Thai Cultural show. Traditional dances, music ensembles and skits of ceremonies will be performed. For those motivated more by testosterone or dining-hall angst, keep in mind the martial arts exhibition and the after-show reception with Pad Thai and Thai Iced Tea. Friday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $12, $8 students, available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Lowell Lecture Hall...
Seen proudly sporting bruises around campus, members of the newly revamped Capoeira Club are more than willing to withstand a few sore muscles in mastering a 400-year-old Brazilian martial art. “You do get kicked a couple of times,” says Elena M. Krieger ’06, one of the club’s two leaders, “yet it’s mostly harmless...
Despite the accidental blows that will inevitably come with any martial art, a lack of physical contact is actually at the heart of the Capoeira tradition. Brought to Brazil from Africa by Angolan slaves who needed to defend themselves from their newly appointed masters, Capoeira evolved as a self-defense mechanism masked as a recreational dance. “Now I can literally say that I dance like I fight, and I fight like I dance,” says Krieger...
...martial arts influence is clear in both major styles of Capoeira: Capoeira Angola, characterized by aesthetic, rhythmic movements executed close to the ground, and the more recent Capoeira Regional, which favors a quicker, aggressive form accentuated with spinning kicks that narrowly miss their target. “It’s hard because it uses a lot of muscles people don’t even know they have,” says Capoeira Club Co-Founder Brenden S. Millstein ’06, “and it makes you flexible, graceful, agile and strong in order to execute most...