Kizomba is an Angolan dance performed by a couple in a close embrace that is gaining worldwide popularity In Mabor, a dusty and neglected corner of Luanda, the sound of a catchy beat rising means only ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

While you may think Sunday nights are reserved for an early night to bed or popcorn and prime time football on the couch, there is a small but mighty group of people in Des Moines who think ...

As New York-trained dancer duo, Namrata Wittke and Elvis Mascarenhas, bring the sensuous Angolan dance form of Kizomba to Mumbai, we match steps to learn how to set the dance floors on fire As we ...