The Rio Carnival Brazil is held every year during the month of February and is considered the biggest carnival in the world with a large crowd.

Dead Can Dance

The postmodern carnival has arrived, and there are good reasons to prefer François Rabelais’s version. By Robert D Zaretsky.

New Orleans’s complicated history with the Mardi Gras flambeaux. By Rien Fertel. (Feb. 23, 2017)

In the Samba´s Palace, the space of green and pink in Rio de Janeiro. The plot for Mangueira´s parade in the Special Group of Carnival "Carioca" 2017 will be "Only with the help of the holy," the carnivalesque Leandro Vieira.

Fabulous fable and photo by Valeria del Cueto (In portuguese)

In the battery platform of "green and pink", the Mangueira, don´t see much, but we can feel the rhythm. It is impossible not to cheer with the "warm" to choose the samba of the year. The time is coming, it´s almost time. 2017 carnival of Rio de Janeiro!

Carnival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In dealing with the backstage of a samba school and the construction phases of his show, the images selected for this exhibition interact with each other in unexpected and surprising , uncorking new perspectives for the understanding of an event highlighting the ephemeral and the load work and art that contributes to a splendor that show for a few minutes during the carnival, but images of Valeria perpetuate in our retinas.