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, (15[1])or maltas, performing this activity attacked each other (15[1])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. Performers of this activity recover from blows with cartwheels (10[1])called aú and build technique from a rocking (10[1])movement called the 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 art. (0[2])■END■