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00000177-ba84-d5f4-a5ff-bbfc9ab20000Our series Creative Life discontinued on October 30th, 2017. It has been replaced by Ways of Life. The Creative Life archive lives on this page. Creative Life offered an audio tour of arts, culture, and inspiration on the Cape and Islands. Our region is rich with creative diversity, and so are the stories we tell.Creative Life is edited by Jay Allison.Creative Life is made possible by The Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI.

Dancing in Capoeira

CAI | By Jenna-Weiss Berman

Published September 21, 2012 at 12:00 AM EDT

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Jenna-Weiss Berman

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Jenna-Weiss Berman

Martha’s Vineyard is home to three thousand immigrants from Brazil. Some of them have found community in the centuries-old Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira, which has become popular on the island in recent years

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This piece came to us from our production partners at Atlantic Public Media through their media training program, The Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole.