The Capoeira Experience at Chattanooga’s Renaissance Park

WUTC | By Ray Bassett

Published August 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM EDT

If you visit Renaissance Park in downtown Chattanooga this weekend, you’ll see on display an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines dance, acrobatics and music.

On Saturday, Art to Empower presents "The Capoeira Experience - Rhythm in the Park," from 4 PM to 8 PM.

I spoke with Monica Ellison and her husband, Aaron - “Coach Cherokee” - Ellison.

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