Dance samba

Só Danço Samba is a bossa nova song composed in 1962 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes.
English lyrics were later written by Norman Gimbel.
On occasion, it has also been known as Jazz Samba and I Only Dance Samba, an English translation of the original Portuguese title.

Samba is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca, samba de roda, recognized as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, amongst many other forms of samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro and Bahia States.

The international ballroom version of samba is a lively, rhythmical dance with elements from Brazilian samba.
It differs considerably from the original samba styles of Brazil; in particular, it differs from Samba de Gafieira, a partner type of Samba in that country.

Samba is a genre of Afro-Brazilian music and dance.

Samba de Gafieira is a partner dance to various Brazilian samba musical rhythms.
Unlike street and club forms of Brazilian samba, it evolved as a ballroom dance.

Samba de Janeiro is a song by German pop group Bellini.
It was released on 5 May 1997 in Germany as the lead single from their debut album of the same name (1997).
The song was a hit throughout Europe, reaching number-one in Hungary and the top 10 in at least 12 countries.
It interpolates the chorus of Airto Moreira's 1972 song Tombo In 7/4, as well as samples the drum rhythm from Moreira's Celebration Suite. Samba de Janeiro won the award for best dance single at the 7th Annual Echo Awards.

Samba rock is a Brazilian dance culture and music genre that fuses samba with rock, soul, and funk.
It emerged from the dance parties of São Paulo's lower-class black communities after they had been exposed to rock and roll and African-American music in the late 1950s.

A samba school is a dancing, marching, and drumming club.
They practice and often perform in a huge square-compounds and are devoted to practicing and exhibiting samba, an Afro-Brazilian dance and drumming style.
Although the word school is in the name, samba schools do not offer instruction in a formal setting.
Samba schools have a strong community basis and are traditionally associated with a particular neighborhood.
They are often seen to affirm the cultural validity of the Afro-Brazilian heritage in contrast to the mainstream education system, and have evolved often in contrast to authoritarian development.
The phrase escola de samba is popularly held to derive from the schoolyard location of the first group's early rehearsals.
In Rio de Janeiro especially, they are mostly associated with poor neighborhoods (favelas).
Samba and the samba school can be deeply interwoven with the daily lives of the shanty-town dwellers.
Throughout the year the samba schools have various happenings and events, most important of which are rehearsals for the main event which is the yearly carnival parade.
Each of the main schools spend many months each year designing the theme, holding a competition for their song, building the floats and rehearsing.
It is overseen by a carnavalesco or carnival director.
From 2005, some fourteen of the top samba schools in Rio have used a specially designed warehouse complex, the size of ten football pitches, called Samba City to build and house the elaborate floats.
Each school's parade may consist of about 3,000 performers or more, and the preparations, especially producing the many different costumes, provide work for thousands of the poorest in Brazilian society.
The resulting competition is a major economic and media event, with tens of thousands in the live audience and screened live to millions across South America.

Strictly Come Dancing returned for its third series on 15 October 2005.
Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returned to co-present the main show on BBC One, while Claudia Winkleman returned to present the spin-off show, Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two.
Len Goodman, Arlene Phillips, Craig Revel Horwood, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges.