THE FORBIDDEN DANCE BORN AS AN AFRO-BRAZILIAN FOLK DANCE, THE PRIMAL SAMBA HAS LONG BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH VOODOO AND MAGIC. SOUNDS LIKE THE PERFECT WAY TO CELEBRATE THE DAY OF THE DEAD. By Mary Kunz ...

The 2016-17 New Orleans Ballet Association season kicks off with a lively dance troupe from Brazil that’s as hot as the equatorial temperatures in this massive South American nation. Grupo Corpo ...

From Brazilian martial-arts dancing to Turkish twirling meditation and Kenyan warriors jumping, the world moves in mysterious ways. Whether you know the language or not, watching—or better yet ...

The non-Jewish Barbosa fell in love with Israeli dance while attending a Jewish school and would go on to teach and choreograph for 35 years. RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Luiz Filipe Barbosa influenced ...

University of Wyoming Department of Music Professor Michael Griffith will conduct the UW Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts concert hall.

“O jeito nosso” means “our way of doing things” in Portuguese. For Grupo Corpo (Body Group), the 22-member Brazilian dance company returning to the Lensic on March 8, the phrase is how choreographer ...

Mayim, mayim, mayim, mayim. Brazil is not usually considered to be one of the worldwide centers of cultural Jewish life. But the country recently hosted what is believed to be the largest Jewish dance ...

“The last time I really slept was November 2009,” Walson Botelho admits cheerfully. It’s 10 p.m., and he’s sitting in his Bakersfield hotel room after a day on the road with his Brazilian dance ...

Brazil’s traditional June festivities—the Festas Juninas, as they are known in the country, originated in Catholic Europe and were brought to the country by the Portuguese during the colonial period.