Swan Lake meets street dance
John Lennon da Silva, a mind-blowing 20 year old street dancer, interprets the scene of the swan’s death, from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake – one of […]
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30 words that separate Brazil from Portugal
You spend a few years in Portugal and then disembark in Brazil – just to learn you cannot communicate with the locals. England and […]
Classic Carnival songs translated into English
This silly & funny video by Leandrade imagines how Classic Carnival marchinhas – those songs that have been played in indoor balls for ages – […]
Deep Brazil on Problogger, the blogger’s bible
Today Problogger, the how-to-blog website that makes my learning curve a little less painful, published a guest post by yours truly. If you are curious, […]
Recife and Olinda: Brazilian Carnival beyond Rio
By José Alberto Gonçalves Pereira* Rio, Salvador, Recife or Olinda? Which town promotes the best carnival in Brazil? It is a very arguable question […]
Samba de roda, mother of Rio’s Carnival
These pre-Carnival days, turn your eyes and ears to Bahia and discover the music that inspired Rio’s Carnival. Samba de Roda, considered by Unesco an […]
13 things you didn't know about Carnival
If you decide to watch the Carnival parade in Rio and rent a box (that may be covered or not and fits between four […]
13 things you didn’t know about Carnival
If you decide to watch the Carnival parade in Rio and rent a box (that may be covered or not and fits between four […]
Martinho da Vila, Carnival king
Forget Momo, the fat guy that, every year, is crowned Carnival King. The real sovereign of the giant feast that begins in a few weeks […]
Earthquakes in Brazil
Compared to some of his neighboring countries, Brazil is practically immune to natural disasters. All Brazilians volcanoes have been extinct for several million years (more […]