The celebrated Afro- Brazilian dance company Viver Brasil returns to Sierra Madre Playhouse with two performances of Rezas e Folhas (Prayers and Leaves), a genre-defying ritualistic work with live ...

A performance by the Afro-Brazilian dance company Viver Brasil. Photo courtesy of Viver Brasil. The Afro-Brazilian dance company Viver Brasil premiered a dance-and-music performance called “Revealed” ...

When you think about the greatest footballers Brazil has ever produced, many had one thing in common: they were superb dribblers, but their movement encapsulated so much more than that. Ronaldinho’s ...

Upon a chance viewing of a dance company from the Brazilian city of Salvador in the state of Bahia while studying for her master’s degree in dance ethnology at UCLA in 1986, Linda Yudin’s life changed ...

BRAZIL, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Sunday was an exciting day for Studio 1, when a team of the four dancers found out they had been chosen to compete in an awards show in Chicago. Studio 1, located in Brazil ...

Viver Brasil was like a disappointing Christmas gift. This veteran Los Angeles-based dance company first appeared to be bright and shiny and promising Thursday at Strathmore. But about half an hour ...

A samba class performs in Rio de Janeiro. There’s an expression here in Brazil: “Tudo acaba em samba.” Translated literally, the phrase means “Everything ends in samba.” That is to say, no matter what ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — 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 — ...