RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — 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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — At rehearsal for the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school, a dancer poses for photos with admiring onlookers while wearing the bright yellow uniform and sky-high heels of the ...

Samba school dancers take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro A reveler from the Vila Isabel samba school dances on the first night of the annual Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome on Feb. 20 ...

Rio de Janeiro is more than beaches and samba. It’s a city of jungle peaks, mysticism, music, and hidden culture after dark.

RIO DE JANEIRO – As Carnival approaches in Rio de Janeiro, members of a samba school perfect a minutely-tuned performance with dancers twirling in blue, red and white skirts and 40 drummers pounding ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — 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 — ...

If you're thinking, "how is that possible," you're not alone. By Sam Reed Every February, half a million people flock to Rio de Janeiro for Carnival, Brazil’s annual new year celebration, to see Samba ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Dancers in dazzling costumes sway to the rhythm of the music as samba bands rehearse in front of cheering crowds in the city's Sambadrome before the start of the world-famous Rio ...