Capoeira
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Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and game that includes elements of dance, acrobatics, music, and spirituality.
Capoeira or the Dance of War by Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1825
San Salvador, 1835, by Rugendas. "The scene is set in a clearing surrounded by tropical vegetation and palm trees, corresponding precisely to the space called capoeira in Brazil."
Panel by Alfredo Storni featuring capoeirista Ciríaco defeating jujitsu fighter Sada Miyako with a rabo de arraia kick, O Malho, 1909.
Capoeiristas outside
Engolo
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N'golo is a traditional Bantu martial art and game from Angola, that combines elements of combat and dance, performed in a circle accompanied by music and singing. It has been proposed by some researc
Capoeira
…of dance, acrobatics, music, and spirituality. Capoeira has been practiced among Black Brazilians for centuries; scholars have identified roots in engolo, a traditional Bantu martial art practiced in Angola. Capoeira is first mentioned in an official document in 1789, as a criminal activity. In the 19th…
Negros in the cellar of a slave boat, by Johann Moritz Rugendas.
The Old Plantation, Angolan stick dance to banjo, South Carolina, 1780s
San Salvador, Bahia, between 1822 and 1824, by Rugendas
Engolo chapa