Growing ever larger since 1966, the Notting Hill Carnival has become the largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe. Every year on the August bank holiday weekend over 1 million carnival revellers head to the streets of West London to enjoy the delights of twenty miles of vibrant colourful costumes with hundreds of Caribbean food stalls and 40 static sound systems along the way.

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As Tanguera takes over Sadler’s Wells this August, Jungle catches up with Brazilian member of the troop, Junior Cervila Continue Reading

Brazil! Brazil! kick-starts the big summer of samba on the South Bank with amazing acrobatics

When Brazil! Brazil! arrives ahead of the Southbank Centre’s Festival Brazil, the audience won’t know what’s hit them. Promising a frenzy of music, dance, capoeira and freestyle football, the cast includes top percussionists, acrobats and dancers from Bahia, the homeland of Afro-Brasilian rhythms that are at the root of contemporary Brasilian culture. Continue Reading

25 people who live on the streets in Hammersmith and Fulham are getting the opportunity to get to know a little bit of Brazilian culture.
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For those who missed the Brazilian Carnival in February and can hardly wait for the Notting Hill version, still far off in August, a luring option is coming on 28^th of May. Continue Reading

The insatiable mind behind Brazil’s largest contemporary dance company, Deborah Colker speaks to Jungle about the building of her career and her new show, Cruel

Perseverance and a lot of energy. These are, without a doubt, two of the most defining traits in the personality of Deborah Colker. The Rio-born dancer of Jewish Russian descent started out with ballet, learnt piano and went on to play volleyball, turning professional in the latter, before deciding to return to dance. Continue Reading

The Capoeira Roda is being organized to show solidarity with the victims of the floods in Rio de Janeiro. Continue Reading

World premiers of Urban by Circolombia (see this month’s 4Thinking Minds) and Narcissus by the Roundhouse Circus Company, with Brasilian circus education pioneers Crescer e Viver running workshops on 8th & 9th May. Read more about Circolombia here. Continue Reading

Colombian circus schools showcase the talent of their artists to the world

Come May, a swathe of the world’s finest circus acts will have descended upon London for the Roundhouse CircusFest. Circolombia are one such act, with the premier of their latest show, Urban, incorporating breakdance and parkour (free-running) with dramatics, choreography, South American hip-hop and swagger, a spectacular show of athleticism and poise coupled with power and grace. Continue Reading