In Rio’s iconic Sambadrome, musicians and dancers are hard at work, gearing up for the carnival. Every year, an increasing number of groups featuring professional dancers flock to the city. Among them ...

See special Global Voices coverage on how women fight gender violence in Latin America. Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the world’s countries to shut down, colors exploded in bright arrays and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, February 11. /TASS/. Russian female dancer Yuliana Titaeva will participate in the samba schools parade at the carnival in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro for the second year a row. "[The Rio ...

“It’s like a rallying cry for women who just want to be able to have the option of enjoying their Carnival — Carnival being that space of freedom,” said Attillah Springer, 40, a Trinidadian writer and ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — At 11:11 a.m. on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of carnival revelers took over the streets of the Rhineland in western Germany, dancing, singing, drinking and showing off ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) " A Louisiana State Museum exhibition that opens Friday (Feb. 10) will commemorate the centennial of New Orleans' oldest surviving women's Carnival parade krewe and the evolution of ...

The women of Muses famously throw shoes and the ladies of Nyx decorate purses. Both krewes present popular parades that tout an all-female membership in the thousands. But there’s a good chance ...

Carnival revellers celebrate the start of their hot season on Women’s Carnival, Feb. 23, 2017, in Duesseldorf, western Germany. (Photo: Federico Gambarini/AFP/Getty Images) A week of celebrations ...

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