The Roman Catholic Church later modified the feast of Saturnalia into a festival preceding the beginning of Lent. However, what evolved is a mass celebration of indulgences in music, dance, food, and drink, something which the Church did not have in mind. People went out onto the streets soaking each other with buckets of water and threw mud and food, which often ended up in street brawls and riots.
The concepts kept changing throughout the s with more organized parades like the grandes sociedades or great societies where the Emperor joined in the celebrations with a group of aristocrats that paraded in masks with luxurious costumes and music.
During the s, masquerade carnival balls set to polkas and waltzes became popular. A decade later, street parades with horse drawn floats and military bands were the center of focus of the carnival. Towards the end of the century, the carnival became a working class festivity where people wore costumes and joined the parade accompanied by musicians playing string instruments and flutes.
The samba schools allow the participation of external people with a prior preparation of about three months. Watch the show and begin to experience a journey through time.
You live each fantasy through. Immediately, you will be part of their imaginary world displayed in the parade and will dance to the drums, marked by the compass of the hips. It is an infectious rhythm, and there is no way out, surrender and move to the rhythm.
Fantasies are varied in terms of their historical content. They are also diverse in visual richness and movement. Making a virtual tour through different editions of the Rio carnival, from the passivity of my computer, I could vibrate to the rhythm of the electrifying samba. I was surprised by the multiplicity of stories, and innovations. I saw air dancers, propelled on swimming pools. The technological deployment is surprising.
Innovation and technology have been integrated in such a way to the carnival, that nothing seems illusory. I also noticed jigging giant animals, some with simple mechanical movements, and others capable of devouring in one bite a stocky dancer.
I saw enchanted snakes with the autonomy of action in front of craft fishing boats, which seemed to honor their commercial fishing tradition and the peasant slaughter. The contrast between the stories makes you feel in a vortex of the multi-universe. At the top of each fantasy, I watched dancers in a balance demonstration that violates the laws of gravity. These are athletic dance routines, due to the physical demands involved.
The carnival is inclusive. I was able to observe comparsas of the disabled making part of this cultural phenomenon. The visual effects of fantasies can have such a level of applied technology that they can make you doubt reality. Some elaborations can have the size of a medium-sized building, with movements that denote an elaborate semi-industrial mechanics.
The sensuality emanated by garotas is one of the most popular attractions. Una Garota girl in Portuguese is a kind of goddess of the dance moving to the rhythm of drums. Their participation goes even beyond the sensual. The previous preparation is almost pre-Olympic. A mile and a half of hip shaking demand it. Music is a joint accomplishment. Hundreds of musicians are paced, synchronized to the rhythm of the proper samba. Fantasies that honor historical events, can lead you to recreate life in the caverns.
They can also anticipate the possible future. Some send religious, social, environmental messages. All of them denote the didactic component of the carnival in Rio. Majesty, creativity, grandeur, will be sensations that you would experience if you decide to be a first-class witness. The brightness, the frost, the lens in conjunction with the bright display, make the substitution to the sun when it is hidden. In my virtual tour, I was surprised by the image of a rasta, whose hair was more than 2 meters long, was braided between several garotas and dancers.
You can easily pass that image, so typical of the suburbs and every day, to the Avengers, who will be there to remind you that you are safe because they guarantee peace in the universe. Each participant is essential.
Sometimes the parade contains elements that are energized by several people. The weight, the dexterity in the movements, the perfect synchrony, account for well-coordinated teamwork. Isabel is the queen of the town. She has been participating for some years as the queen of the drums, always next to the orchestra, inspiring the groups that follow her.
Being queen demands to be fit, a talent for dancing and aesthetics. A whole t eam attends the Garota queens. Trainers, costume designers, makeup artists, samba instructors; they all spin together to make the best creation each year.
Foreign beliefs typify them, as they are part of favelas and ignorance, as girls with dubious lives. However, the reality is that many of them are working mothers, heads of families, with the commitments of those trades.
Something unites them: the passion for dancing and the dream of shining in the parade and the extreme ambition to win the competition. Among them there are no hierarchies, they are all queens, they are all goddesses. Undoubtedly, the carnival is a worldwide celebration. Without favoritism, but with a real sense of opportunity, in this carnival, I will surely travel to Rio de Janeiro to enjoy this grand experience. The upscale district of Leblon neighborhood also features parties that incorporate its famous beaches into the theme.
The Downtown neighborhood , meanwhile, attracts the younger crowd. It would be a shame to go to Rio with the plan drinking the whole time you are there.
For the city has more to offer than the Carnival. Schedule a tour with your agent so you can soak in the sights and sounds of the local people and culture. True, the television is a brutal medium because it fails to provide a context. Lately, organizers have clamped down on too much nudity although some dancers push this rule to the limit by exposing skin.
There is something for everyone when you visit these beaches. The verdant mountains and the scenic landscape make up for a delicious eye-candy. Not to mention the number of stunning women in bikinis, particularly in Ipanema neighborhood.
If you are into sports, you can join the locals in playing soccer, Frisbee, or volleyball. You can also learn to surf or just lounge around with your kids, building sandcastles or just let your imaginations run free.
Without meaning to do it, you will simply adopt the carioca quality of living in the moment. The other beaches frequented by locals are Leme, Beach of Barra da Tijuca , Prainha and the upscale Leblon neighborhood. Surfers, meanwhile, prefer the Arpoador because of its strong waves. The Carnival is one of the more popular tourist destinations in the world.
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