Capoeira: Game! Dance! Martial Art!

Capoeira: Game! Dance! Martial Art!

CAPOEIRA it's a game, a dance, a martial art! It's a way of expressing oneself through movement and music. With action-packed photographs and accessible text, readers are introduced to this exciting, popular game. At Madinga Academy in Oakland, California, a group of girls and boys practice the acrobatic moves of capoeira. Then they begin to play games to the infectious, rhythmic beat of traditional music and singing. On to Brazil to experience capoeira in its historic birthplace, where it dates back four hundred years. Capoeira developed as a way of fighting among enslaved Africans, was outlawed the the government, and was permitted once again in 1930 as a martial art and game. Back in Oakland, at an end-of-year ceremony, students receive their colored ropes indicating their levels of accomplishment. They also look forward to next year, and the fun of expressing themselves through the game, dance and martial art of capoeira.
Country USA
Brand Lee & Low Books
Manufacturer Lee & Low Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781620141885
ReleaseDate 2007-05-01
UnitCount 1
Format Picture Book
EANs 9781620141885

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