Maculelê (dance)

Maculelê is a Brazilian martial dance. He has frequently exercised similar roots as capoeira and is in connection with this. In contrast to the Capoeira, however, it is a knife or stick fighting - each fighter carries two so-called grimas or two large knives, as are customary for harvesting sugar cane. The martial dance is accompanied in the roda ( the circle ) of the hand drum Atabaque, antiphonal singing, clapping hands and the rhythmic beating up the sticks.