The capoeira is one of the expressions the most characteristic of Brazilian culture. It is rather common(shared) to find definitions maintaining that the “game(set,play) of the capoeira” consists of a sports activity, able to be practised at any age in clubs, fitness gyms or in streets, and that it resembles an exercise without fixed rules(rulers), obeying a characteristic protocol nevertheless, and possessing its own music, in which the musical instrument which commands(orders) the development of game(set,play) and of ground it the berimbau is ("ground" her is in French the round, that trains(forms) capoeiristes during confrontations called "games("sets) “). It is however about a definition which reduces the practice of the capoeira to its purely sports aspects regardless all its other dimensions(size), that you will be able to discover by exchanging with the team of the association Cordão of Ouro (http://cordaodeouro.fr), during your visit to the embassy of Brazil in France.