Gallery

Samba, Carnival and classes.

Photographs from the Rio Carnival, from the classes, and from the road behind them. If you want to start dancing samba from scratch, the way in is Your First Movement.

Rio Carnival

On the avenue.

Naty has taken part in the Rio Carnival since 2020. In 2026 she joined the ala de passistas of Unidos da Tijuca, an escola of Rio's Grupo Especial. These are some of those nights: the costume, the avenue, and the hours of preparation that don't show in the photograph.

Naty in a yellow and gold costume at the gathering, before entering the avenue

Naty parading in a coloured feather headdress at the Sambódromo

Naty smiling in a blue and red costume mid-parade

Naty walking along the Sambódromo avenue

Naty in a green and white costume with a feather headdress at Carnival

Naty in a yellow costume with white feathers during Carnival

Naty with a red boa among the dancers of the escola

Naty moving down the avenue with the escola's ala

Naty in a red costume alongside other dancers at night

Naty in a yellow fringed costume during the parade

Natalia Ferrer parading in a blue and silver costume at the Rio de Janeiro Carnival

Natalia Ferrer smiling in a yellow costume with a white feather headdress at the Rio Carnival

Natalia Ferrer wearing a large blue and yellow feather headdress at the Rio de Janeiro Carnival

Natalia Ferrer in a green and white costume, arms raised, at the Rio Carnival

Natalia Ferrer dancing samba in a yellow fringed costume on the Carnival avenue

Natalia Ferrer beside a blue and yellow flag on a Carnival float

Natalia Ferrer dancing samba in a yellow fringed costume, arm raised

Natalia Ferrer laughing alongside other samba dancers during Carnival

Samba dancers in yellow and white costumes moving down the avenue

Classes

Learning together.

This is what the classes are like: comfortable clothes, a wooden floor, and women who started from scratch. Nobody arrives knowing how — you start precisely because you don't know yet.

A group of women dancing samba in a dance studio

A group of women posing and laughing after dancing

Naty

Behind the samba.

What happens off the stage and outside the studio. The road behind every step learned.

Naty sitting beside a stream, in sportswear

Naty with her arms raised before going out to parade

Naty beside the embroidered banner of a samba escola

Naty dancing in the street in a blue fringed dress

Natalia Ferrer dancing samba in a yellow bodysuit on a street at night

Shall we start?

You can dance samba too.

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