It began with nifty leg actions, sturdy steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted strikes from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo.
It began with nifty leg actions, sturdy steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted strikes from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo.
The ‘passinho’, a dance model created in the 2000s by youngsters in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, was declared an “intangible cultural heritage” by legislators in the state of Rio, bringing recognition to a cultural expression born in the sprawling working-class neighbourhoods.
