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Description: The Universal Capoeira Angola Center is a community-run and nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the Afro-Brazilian martial art through creating a comfortable, welcoming atmosphere for sharing and passing on the artistic and cultural traditions of Capoeira Angola.
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Capoeira is an art form that combines fighting techniques and fluid dance movements in a ritual involving call and response songs and rhythms. It originated among African's taken to Brazil, who combined elements of their own culture into a response to the oppression of slavery and it’s repercussions. Capoeira is rooted in the rituals of Central and West African cultures that were brought to Brazil through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.What originated as a ritual right of passage for young men, has develope
The Universal Capoeira Angola Center is a community-run and nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the Afro-Brazilian martial art through creating a comfortable, welcoming atmosphere for sharing and passing on the artistic and cultural traditions of Capoeira Angola.
1351 U St NW Washington D.C., DC 20009
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