The Olympic games were in full swing ... in Rio was much paying attention to the Casa de Jongo, either. The gleaming new cultural center houses community archives from the past 80 years, a dance ...

Under a busy overpass in Rio's working-class neighborhood Madureira ... there is no recipe for the success of a passinho or dance step sequence. "If the people like a passinho, they will dance ...

Rio de Janeiro’s annual samba extravaganza got into full swing on Saturday in typical style. Hundreds of thousands of people poured into the Brazilian city to watch elite schools compete on the second ...