Vavá Samba performs frevo music and dance from Pernambuco, Brazil. Part of a series of educational videos created for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival's Brazil in DC initiative. Vavá United School of ...
It's Carnival this weekend in Brazil. While it costs hundreds of dollars just to get a bad seat in Rio de Janeiro, the northern city of Recife hosts the most unique and varied celebration in the ...
On a recent night at a theater in downtown Rio de Janeiro, a dozen lithe Brazilian teenagers performed a frenetically paced hybrid of samba, frevo and American break dancing, to a funk beat. The fast ...
It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo — whatever was around. The ...