A samba school (Portuguese: Escola de samba) is a dancing, marching, and drumming (Samba Enredo) club. They practice and often perform in a huge square-compounds...

samba de roda (sometimes also called rural samba), amongst many other forms of samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro and Bahia states. Samba...

Recreativo Escola de Samba Portela or Portela for short, is a traditional samba school, founded in 1923, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The school has the highest...

from numerous samba schools which are located in Rio (more than 200 approximately, divided into five leagues/divisions). A samba school is composed of...

with a samba written by Heitor dos Prazeres. GRES Estação Primeira de Mangueira Samba-School, represented by Cartola, and Estácio de Sá samba School, represented...

Samba is a lively dance of Afro-Brazilian origin in 2/4(2 by 4) time danced to samba music. The term "baby" originally referred to any of several Latin...

downtown area of Cidade Nova in Rio de Janeiro, and is the place where samba schools parade competitively each year during the Rio Carnival. The parades...

mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band. Another defining...

of whistles. The apito de samba ("samba whistle") is used during performances of samba. In a samba school, the apito de samba plays a crucial role because...

the most important samba enredos (samba school themed songs) and has forged a solid partnership with the Vila Isabel samba school. In spite of being a...