Brazil

Carnival in Rio: Samba Dance with me

Golden eagle and opulent costumes: At the imaginative Show in Rio de Janeiro, leaving thousands of dancers the hips to Samba circles, and fought until the Morning for the title of best Samba school of the city.

The colourful Parade of the Samba schools in Rio de Janeiro in the final round gone. The dancers of Vila Isabel-Samba school (in the article), the first into the Sambodrom, the Brazilian city moved in, were part of elaborate paillettenüberladene costumes, sometimes hardly more than a magnificent feather headdress. On the floats of the group were huge skull and an enormous bronzefarbenes Baby.

Two Weeks Of Street Parades

At the two-day Parade to weigh the dancers of the best Samba schools of the city until the early hours of the morning to hot rhythms, smooth your hips. The winner of the competition, its organizers as the “largest Show in the world”, proclaims a 40-member Jury on Wednesday. The parades of the Samba schools, a selection from approximately one hundred Ensembles of Amateurtänzern from the Brazilian metropolis, go two weeks with street parades ahead. The carnival will take an estimated five million people, including a Million tourists.

Alone the Parade in the Sambodrom lived 70.000 dancing and cheering spectators. In the performance of the Samba schools with thousands of dancers and musicians involved, including hundreds of drummers. The Samba school Mangueira joined the demonstration in the morning with a tribute to the singer Maria Bethânia. The singer-songwriter from Bahia, is a follower of the afro-Brazilian Candomblé rituals. Mangueira has 18 titles one of the most successful schools in the city and sent over 4,000 dancers and several huge trucks in the Arena.

Brazilians defy the economic crisis and the Zika Virus

The televised celebrations were for the Brazilian is a welcome distraction from the care of the particularly in Brazil, rampant Zika epidemic. In addition, the dispute over the corruption affair at the Erdölkonzern Petrobras and the conflict over the impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff. Because of the economic crisis is the funding for the elaborate Sambaaufführungen decreased significantly. In 48 cities was the carnival even completely cancelled.

The contributors, many of which are very a lot of skin showed, as well as thousands of viewers, let the good mood does not spoil. However, the health authorities remain vigilant. After the passage of the respective Samba schools brought municipal workers ‘ insecticide on the 700-metre-long runway in the Sambodrom.

pab/rb (afp, dpa)