What happens when you bring a dance – shunned by a foreign country – into the U.S.? It blows up. People at New York City Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors festival got to have a sample of a new Brazilian ...

INSTEAD OF THE same old stuff, I thought I’d infuse some international culture into the fitness education/product grab bag: Sarina Jain says she introduced Indian dance to the U.S. fitness industry ...

Then let’s dance while kicking butt! Head over to Capoeira Brazilian Pelourinho to try your hand at this Afro-Brazilian dance martial arts. This form of exercise is both rich in culture and also ...

“Dance & Fight Cultural Center’’ promises the sign outside Marcus Coreba’s capoeira studio in Marlborough. Capoeira, a beautiful, lethal blend of music, dance, and martial art, is part of the American ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo — ...

Back in the early 1960s, Brazilian-influenced musical styles were all the rage of the jazz world, occasionally crossing over onto the pop music charts as well. Songs incorporating Brazilian sambas and ...

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet wraps up its winter season with contemporary Brazilian dance flair. Grupo Corpo, translated as “Body Group,” performs Tuesday at Aspen District Theater. The company began in 1975 ...