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A beautiful capoeira girl meets a boy from an opposing club. Like her he is a devastatingly fit and highly trained capoeirista. A beguiling fighting dance for capoeira dominance ensues. A short film by LENA.
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The Capoeira was created in Bahia by African slaves as a way to defend themselves from abuse, a skill disguised as a pseudo-dance ritual to fool their masters.
Today there are Capoeira schools all over Brazil and the world, but especially in Bahia, where slaves were first brought to America, as a way of expressing black pride and keeping their history and culture alive.
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Some high-end acrobatic capoeira action from the end of great roda in the Favela. These capoeira students are doing it all on bare concrete floor, no shoes. Incredible skill and fearlesness!!!!
![Brazilian Bahia\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/o9N4SPYTFKI/2.jpg "Brazilian Bahia\")
