The title of Mattjis van der Port’s anthropological film The Body Won’t Close references a performer of this activity who claimed to have impervious skin. The name “stingray’s tail” is used to describe any movement in this activity involving a swinging kick over the performer’s head. Two gangs, or maltas, performing this activity attacked each other in an 1870s proxy war for the Liberal and Conservative parties of their country. This activity is traditionally accompanied by patterned rhythms played by a trio of microtonal, gourd-and-bow instruments called (*) berimbau. (10[1])Performers of this activity recover from blows with cartwheels called aú and build technique from a rocking movement called the (-5[1])ginga (jeen-gah). This martial art, whose carioca form involved straight razor attacks, is derived from the Bantu engolo ritual combat and originated in Bahia. For 10 points, name this Afro-Brazilian martial (10[1])art. ■END■