THEY are the gorgeous, glittering Samba dancers who steal the show at the greatest party on the planet. The queens and muses who light up the jaw-dropping, heart-pounding Rio Carnival are once ...

Events take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s most cosmopolitan city. All the main samba competitions between rival dance schools and parades take place in the Sambadrome – a purpose-built parade area ...

But samba is not on the menu at the Madureira dance party. Here thousands of people from Rio's Black and Brown community get together every Saturday night to dance to the sounds of R&B as buses ...

She nearly threw up on the dancers and had to be lowered down ... the cleaning company for the city of Rio, appeared dancing samba to announce the imminent arrival of the games in Rio.

But samba is not on the menu at the Madureira dance party. Here thousands of people from Rio's Black and Brown community get together every Saturday night to dance to the sounds of R&B as buses ...

For the first time, Carnaval, the famous pre-Lenten tradition in Latin America, made its way to the hilltop on March 11. The ...

The Beija-Flor samba school has been crowned winner of Rio de Janeiro's celebrated carnival parade competition. Thousand gathered at the city's giant Sambadrome arena to watch the top 12 samba schools ...