This professional ensemble performs a colorful, crowd-pleasing repertoire of Afro-Brazilian dances that fuse rhythmic music with high-energy gymnastics and martial arts. The concert lasts 45 minutes.

The ensemble performs Capoeira, a martial art dance form developed in Brazil by 16th-Century slaves that is punctuated by fast footwork, daring leaps, and split second timing.

Also featured are Maculele, a stick dance created by African slaves working on Brazilian sugarcane plantations, and Samba, Brazil’s national dance. Grades K and up.

— an announcement from Darien Library

(photo from Darien Library website)

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Editor’s note: If you missed them or want to see them again, they’re playing at Greenwich Library on Sunday. From Greenwich Library’s announcement: