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Samba goes global as foreign dancers bring Rio Carnival home

by Associated Press
| February 10, 2020 9:05 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — At rehearsal for the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school, a dancer poses for photos with admiring onlookers while wearing the bright yellow uniform and sky-high heels of the school’s elite passista samba dancers.

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