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| A woman from Brazil and a man from Argentina dance samba at the World Cup Fan Fest 2014( Courtesy: AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) |
RIO DE JANEIRO: Renata de Mouro Moitinho sambas so fast her feet blur, but her partner moves with the bumbling tentativeness of a toddler taking his first steps.
And in a way the strapping man in a tight spandex soccer jersey really is taking his first steps — his first samba steps, that is: Moitinho's dance partner for the evening is an Italian, visiting Brazil for the World Cup, and she is giving him his very first lesson in the nation's frenetically paced national dance.