Members of the Padre Miguel samba school performing at the Sambadrome during Carnival festivities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. REUTERS ...

The Beija-Flor samba school performed at the Rio de Janeiro Carnival on Monday (March 3), parading through the famed Sambadrome during a spectacular competition with several other samba schools.

Carnival celebrates vibrant global traditions, blending history, resistance, and cultural expression through music, dance, ...

Subtle hand signs likewise coordinate the hundreds of pounding drummers in each of the glitzy Carnival ... costumes, towering floats and jaw-dropping dancers passing by. But for many samba ...

As one of Rio's 12 top-tier samba schools ... as she fixed details on several costumes, some bearing the school's traditional red and white colors. “When Carnival comes, it offers opportunities ...

THEY are the gorgeous, glittering Samba dancers who steal ... heart-pounding Rio Carnival are once again preparing to don their spectacular costumes and strut their stuff in front of millions ...