These dances —salsa, kizomba, and bachata—were once confined to small studios with few non-Kenyans, but they are now providing an escape for Kenyan professionals. It is here that executives, engineers ...

Kizomba master Nelson Campos is wearing a black round-neck T-shirt, a pair of black jeans, red shoes and a red cap. His student, Amruta Mahapatra, is clad in a bright red bodysuit. The contrasting ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dino D’Santiago is whipping up the audience with the ferrinho. The musician and rapper plays the instrument, a ...

This year marks Brazil’s 35th Art Biennale, which is “the largest art exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere.” Starting September 6, the Biennale will bring together works from 121 participants from ...

You’ve swung the West Coast swing, spiced up your salsa and topped off your tango—what’s next? Time to kiss up to kizomba. This Angolan dance style first caught fire in the 1980s, and has since spread ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kizomba is an Angolan dance performed by a couple in a close embrace that is gaining worldwide popularity Kizomba is an Angolan ...

LUANDA (Reuters) - It's a warm humid afternoon in Luanda Bay - an urban waterfront on Angola's Atlantic shore. Pairs of dancers in close embrace sway their hips from left to right and shuffle their ...

Dancers are gearing up for a festival that centers on the African diaspora, sensuality, and New England’s vibrant Lusophone communities. In a video from Montreal’s Kizo Fest this past June, ...

A stranger walks toward me in the dimly lit club. Insistent bass pulses from the speakers, the lyrics in a foreign language. Without a word, he places one hand on the small of my back and takes my ...

Some call it the sensuous or risqué dance, but slowly grooving to bachata or kizomba is the best remedy for a bad day. Small wonder that more people are jumping on the social dancing bandwagon and ...

Lately, Canadian acts like Shawn Mendes, The Weeknd, Drake and Justin Bieber are ruling the Billboard charts, opening new opportunities for upcoming artists By Suzette Fernandez Lately, Canadian acts ...