Brazilian-American musician Beto Gonzalez was too young to understand the country around him when his family returned to Brazil in the 1970s. It was only as he grew older, after coming back to the ...

A samba class performs in Rio de Janeiro. There’s an expression here in Brazil: “Tudo acaba em samba.” Translated literally, the phrase means “Everything ends in samba.” That is to say, no matter what ...

HAYWARD -- In Brazil, the Rhythm of Samba is everywhere and in just weeks those same sounds will fill the air right here in the Bay Area at San Francisco's 45th annual Carnaval celebration and parade.

The banner on the back wall of the old dance hall says in Portuguese: “While there is dance, we still have hope.” There’s plenty of that as the crowd of Cariocas (Rio locals) shake hips and move their ...

Full of dense rainforests, bustling cities and golden beaches, Brazil is an endless feast for the eyes—and also for the ears. The country’s music teems with African, European and Amerindian influences ...

Samba is inextricably linked to the people of Rio's Sugarloaf Mountain. At a 'samba de roda', Brazilians come together to feel the music that has accompanied them since childhood. Skip next section ...

The couples will take to the ballroom floor together to impress the judges with their best Samba moves in this series Samba-Thon Strictly Come Dancing announces the return of the much-loved ...

Week ten of Strictly Come Dancing's 2024 series brings a fresh challenge for the couples in the form the much-loved Dance-A-Thon. The BBC One dance contest returns on Saturday night (November 23) with ...

Brazilian choreographer Lili de Grammont presents a double-bill of work from the São José dos Campos Dance Company, laced with drama and propelled along with kinetic flow. In Voyeur, a diagonal line ...

At Austin Samba School, students are dressed in American-flag cowboy outfits and dancing to a samba rhythm. And class has just begun. The dance school combines the study of Brazilian samba with Texas ...

Five dancers sit waiting, watching their audience, their gaze cool and unreadable. When the lights dim a duet begins, the music dark and ominous as the dancers wrap and entwine, softly at first then ...