The Viradouro samba school has won Rio de Janeiro's hotly contested Carnival parade competition with its tribute to black women. Viradouro was the last samba school to parade in the two-day ...

Samba school Salgueiro was crowned champion of Rio's fiercely competitive Carnival parades on Wednesday ... Salgueiro's parade theme centered on the history of the "drum" and its importance ...

Carnival dancers took the biggest stage in Rio de Janeiro with their faces painted ... It was part of Salgueiro's samba school's tribute to the Yanomami, Brazil’s largest Indigenous group ...

Performers from the Salgueiro samba school parade during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Monday. The Associated Press Carnival dancers have taken the biggest ...

An image of Jesus lays amid costume pieces at the "Unidos de Padre Miguel" samba school as members prepare for their Carnival ...

Revellers from Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school perform during the first night of the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 22, 2022. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares ...

The Young Men Illinois Club heads down to Brazil for the samba-filled Carnaval at the clubs annual Carnival ball.

The venue is where 13 samba schools (from the ‘Special Group’) parade competitively each year during the Rio Carnival. Lined with tiered seating, the Sambadrome is a 700-metre stretch along ...

Brazil's most famous carnival celebrations have taken place in Rio de Janeiro. More than 70,000 people gathered at the city's huge concrete arena known as the Sambadrome, where samba schools ...

The street carnival begins on February ... the city also hosts the Intendente Magalhães parade, a space in the northern zone of Rio where smaller samba schools present themselves.

Sequence 2: Carnival parade. In samba school groups to parade round the edge of the room to perform the complete carnival dance - paired flag waving, group follow-the-leader and themed carnival dance.