BBC News - Passinho: The dance craze coming out of Rio's favelas
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 21:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Brazil may be best known for the samba, but a new dance - fuelled by YouTube and social media - is emerging from the favelas. Passinho, or "little step", is a hybrid of pop, funk and break-dancing combined with traditional Brazilian styles such as samba, pagode and frevo. T …