Samba dancers participate in a parade during the Carnival 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Feb. 18, 2026. (Photo by Lucio Tavora/Xinhua) Samba dancers participate in a parade during the Carnival 2026 ...

In a faded rehearsal hall in the gritty concrete sprawl of northern Rio de Janeiro, samba dancers and drummers fine-tune ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Swathed in nothing but a sprinkling of sequins and a puff of feathers, Rio de Janeiro's samba group dancers are the star attractions of the world's most iconic Carnival ...

Rio de Janeiro's Carnival is using samba parades to spotlight Black Brazilian women writers who rarely get public recognition.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It’s a life of stark contrast: By day, Diana Prado is a supervisor at an insurance company’s drably lit call center cramped with blue cubicles. But when night falls, she dazzles ...

After two years without its frenetic festival, sultry samba and towering floats, Rio de Janeiro will hold its famed carnival parades Friday. A member of a carnival samba school performs during a ...

Community members did the samba just steps away from Oakland City Hall on Thursday during a recent dance class by MasFX Carnival Dance Experience. MasFX Dance began in 2020 to cultivate spaces and ...

‘Freak Le Boom Boom’, Gretchen Gretchen is known for her disco tracks from the 1970s and 1980s, constant presence on ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Carnival always breathes life into the economy of Vila Vintem, a favela on Rio de Janeiro's west side, but this year the pulse is even stronger with its Unidos de Padre Miguel ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — At a classical orchestra, a conductor’s raised hands often means the start of a performance. Tracing shapes in the air could point to how each beat must come. And one’s free fingers ...

On February 21, 2026, from 7-10:30 p.m. in the upstairs ballroom of The ARC, 251 Main Street, in Winona, beat the winter ...