The Asakusa Samba Carnival has grown from modest beginnings in 1981 to become one of Asia’s largest summer festivals, attracting 500,000 spectators each year. With about 4,000 participants in 18 teams ...

She took up the dance, she says, for the sake of exercise. "I never thought to take dance classes as a child," she says. "I don't know the moves." She began tentatively with Middle Eastern dance but ...

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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.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Samba dance is synonymous with Brazil and now its fun and fast paced style is catching on around ...

I do not remember there being a World Cup where the Brazilian team was not one of the favourites. Even on their worst days they were expected to win and this World Cup season they have got a great ...

What is the samba soccer style that the Brazil national football team are so famed for? The Selecao are renowned for a way of playing football which has been dubbed the 'samba soccer'. If you've tuned ...