Brazilians know how to party, and the state of Bahia in eastern Brazil has a reputation for making a very big deal when Carnival comes around. You could get a head start on that winter festival by ...

Daniel was born and raised in Salvador, Brazil where he studied Capoeira and Afro-Brazilian dance for 18 years before moving to the U.S. in 2008. Daniel began training Capoeira Regional under Mestre ...

The resurgence of ballroom dance has made the samba almost as well-known as the waltz, and in recent years, martial-arts studios have popularized the Brazilian fighting art of capoeira. However, as ...

Balé Folclórico da Bahia aims to give an authentic taste of Afro-Brazilian history and culture with every high kick and undulation that unfolds onstage. Using drumming and religious chanting as part ...

Growing up in a working-class section of Jersey City, Cynthia Renta learned how to negotiate between many colliding worlds: the Cuban crowd she hung out with in Union City; her fellow Puerto Ricans ...