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Practiced widely today in urban Brazil and elsewhere, capoeira is a complex Afro-Brazilian martial art that originated in early slave culture. At once game, sport, mock combat, and ritualized performance, it involves two players who dance and battle within a ring of musicians and singers. Feats requiring great acrobatic athleticism and strength combine with music and poetry in a form as expressive in movement as it is in word.

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