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Wandering through Holland Park, Regent's Parks or Hampstead Heath on a hazy Sunday afternoon or the back streets of Portobello on Saturday, you stumble across a deliciously incongruous spectacle: a tribal gathering of people chanting and playing bizarre percussive instruments encircling a pair of oppenents who are engaged in an acrobat dance in which they appear to throw, roll and toss each other without actually touching..
The likelihood is that they are the students at the Fantasma East London A Brazilian martial art which is catching on like a new religion in London. The question is whether is should be considered a dance, a fight, sport.