In this Jan. 27, 2020 photo, performers wait next to a image of Saint Sebastian, patron saint of the Rio de Janeiro, for the start of the rehearsal at the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school, in Rio de ...

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 as a scantily clad ...

For the first time since the Cuban conga (1938), it looks as though the U.S. is taking up a new ballroom dance. The new dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting ...

Percussion-based music echoed in the streets as dancers and musicians from the Evanston Escola de Samba invited people to clap along with the beat. Dancers wearing bright pink, blue and orange ...

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.

At first glance, "So You Think You Can Dance" (Fox, Wednesdays, 9:00 pm ET) seems like a highly unlikely hit. Partner dancing in public naturally suffers from the disadvantages of being widely ...

The weekend is a lot of weekend. The Miami Art Museum's monthly cocktail event gets considerably more caliente this evening with a Sao Paulo theme that'll have you sipping caipirinhas, watching samba ...