All the main samba competitions between rival dance schools and parades take place in the Sambadrome – a purpose-built parade area created for the Carnival in downtown Cidade Nova. After the ...

She refused to give up, and now, five years on, she is a professional dance fitness instructor who recently racked up 1.9 million views on Instagram (@thisblackwomancan) with a montage of clips ...

She grew "obsessed" with Carnival and has been taking part in official parades since 2011. "She can dance more samba than many Brazilians," says stylist Sandro Carvalho, responsible for the ...

Rio's hotly contested carnival parade has been won by the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school with its tribute ... to looks like scenes from hell, with dancers dressed as devils in a nod to ...

It takes its name from semba, a dance originating in Angola in which ... but it is in February, during Carnival, that samba ...

Performers wear elaborate, colourful costumes and dance to lively samba music. The world famous carnival sees partygoers lining the streets of Rio's Copacabana and Ipanema beaches to dance ...