Carnival in Brazil: Tijuca (Narrated in English) Part 1 of 2
Samba School: Unidos da Tijuca – February, 2005.
Part 1 of 2.
This is the 3rd oldest Rio samba school. It became noticed again in 2004, as a surprise to everyone, with its creative and innovative artistic work.
The highlight of Brazil Carnival is undoubtedly the Rio Samba Schools Parade, a totally unique event in the world.
The Rio Samba Parade is the review of a fierce competition between the Rio samba schools. The judges and spectators watch the principal parades in the Sambodromo which was especially built for this event.
The Samba Parade is something everybody should experience at least once in their life. The event is broadcast live to several countries.
The Rio Samba Parade is very distinctive from all other street parades held at some other places in the world. It is not a street happening where people move chaotically about as they like, but more of a highly orchestrated show of vast proportions. Every parader has a specific role and place according to his costume in a particular wing, of a particular section of the samba school he/she is parading in support of.
Each year each school chooses a different theme for the Samba Parade. It can be a celebration of a particular period, or, of famous figures of Brazilian history. It may highlight a special event or speak of anything that might move the spirit and imagination; like a special animal, or one of the elements; water or fire, etc. The school has to illustrate the chosen theme through all its work:
• the samba tunes, which are especially written for that year
• the richly decorated floats and costumes of their 3,000 to 5,000 parading members designed by the school’s Carnival Designer (the so called Carnavalesco).
The parade of every school is highly organized and designed. They line up in a unique way to present their pageant.
The costumes are extremely imaginative, colorful, elaborate and detailed. They are truly original, designed and made from scratch each year. They have mirrors, feathers, metallic cloth, silk and sometimes gems or coins. These costumes take months to make. The work starts roughly 8 months in advance.
You may think of the whole event as a tropical opera or rather like several operas happening on one night. It is beautiful to watch and the experience for the paraders themselves is so intense that the memories last for a lifetime.
Duration : 0:9:59
Carnival in Brazil: Mangueira (Narrated in English) Part 1 of 2
Samba School: Mangueira – February, 2005.
Part 1 of 2.
Mangueira is Brazil’s most popular samba school due to its old tradition, a very strong support community and the most successful samba hall. It was the winner of the first Samba Parade held in the Sambodromo and has been ranked very high year by year ever since, for its consistently strong performance. It is the oldest among the existing Rio samba schools.
The Rio Samba Parade is the review of a fierce competition between the Rio samba schools. The judges and spectators watch the principal parades in the Sambodromo which was especially built for this event.
The Samba Parade is something everybody should experience at least once in their life. The event is broadcast live to several countries.
The Rio Samba Parade is very distinctive from all other street parades held at some other places in the world. It is not a street happening where people move chaotically about as they like, but more of a highly orchestrated show of vast proportions. Every parader has a specific role and place according to his costume in a particular wing, of a particular section of the samba school he/she is parading in support of.
Each year each school chooses a different theme for the Samba Parade. It can be a celebration of a particular period, or, of famous figures of Brazilian history. It may highlight a special event or speak of anything that might move the spirit and imagination; like a special animal, or one of the elements; water or fire, etc. The school has to illustrate the chosen theme through all its work:
• the samba tunes, which are especially written for that year
• the richly decorated floats and costumes of their 3,000 to 5,000 parading members designed by the school’s Carnival Designer (the so called Carnavalesco).
The parade of every school is highly organized and designed. They line up in a unique way to present their pageant.
The costumes are extremely imaginative, colorful, elaborate and detailed. They are truly original, designed and made from scratch each year. They have mirrors, feathers, metallic cloth, silk and sometimes gems or coins. These costumes take months to make. The work starts roughly 8 months in advance.
You may think of the whole event as a tropical opera or rather like several operas happening on one night. It is beautiful to watch and the experience for the paraders themselves is so intense that the memories last for a lifetime.
Duration : 0:10:0
KFC Carnival Costumes TV LoopCarnival Brazil 2010, View From Camarote Azul…Amazing View!!!
Carnival Rio de Janeiro. Rio’s lavish carnival is one of the world’s most famous. Scores of spectacular floats surrounded by thousands and thousands of dancers, singers, and drummers parade through the enormous Sambódromo Stadium dressed in elaborate costumes (or, quite often, with absolutely no costume.) It is an epic event televised around the world. The origin of Brazil’s carnival goes back to a Portuguese pre-lent festivity called “entrudo”, a chaotic event where participants threw mud, water, and food at each other in a street event that often led to riots (an event quite similar to today’s Andean carnival – see Venezuelan section of this booklet). Rio’s first masquerade carnival ball (set to polkas and waltzes) was in 1840. Carnival street parades followed a decade later with horse drawn floats and military bands. The sound closely associated with the Brazilian carnival, the samba, wasn’t part of carnival until 1917. The samba is a mix of Angolan semba, European polka, African batuques, with touches of Cuban habanera and other styles. What we now know as samba is a result of the arrival of black Brazilians (primarily from Bahia) to the impoverished slums or favelas surrounding Rio following the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. Today the carnival is organized by the escolas de samba (samba schools). They first appeared in 1928. Much more than musical groups, they are in fact, neighborhood associations that provide a variety of community needs (such as educational and health care resources) in a country with grinding poverty and no social safety net.
Carnival Salvador da Bahia. Salvador da Bahia was Brazil’s first center of government (from 1549 to 1763), and remains its musical capital. For centuries, Bahia was home of the Portuguese sugar industry and slave trade. As a result, today Salvador is the largest center of African culture in the Americas. Amidst the colonial architecture and cobblestone streets, there is an unmistakeable beat of Bahian drumming. You can hear it in the stereo speakers and boomboxes blasting the latest Axê pop music. It becomes overwhelming when the large percussion ensembles (with literally hundreds of drummers) called “blocos Afros” take to the streets for carnival. It was a movement launched a half century ago by the group, Filhos de Gandhi (Sons of Gandhi). Today, there are countless blocos Afros that have taken on a new mission as part of the “negritude” movement to re-establish Black Pride. Olodum, Ara Ketu, Ilê Aiyé, Timbalada and the all women’s drumming mega-group Dida all electrify Salvador every February during carnival. Olodum’s Billy Arquimimo explains, “We started Olodum 20 years ago because at that time, black people used to be ashamed of their skin. We thought it was necessary to do something to re-establish Black Pride, and to redevelop African culture here in Bahia.” Like Rio, the city of Salvador is famous for its carnival. For both cities, it is an enormous festival leading up to Lent. That is where the similarities end. Rio is famous for its Samba schools, elaborate costumes (or at times no costumes), and a huge parade held at the Sambódromo Stadium. Salvador is Brazil’s street carnival. It lasts for weeks. The music begins daily as early as noon and runs until 7 or 8 the next morning…carnival brazil 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, Carnival Salvador Bahia, Mocidade Independente, timbalada, thatiana pagung, Ivete Sangalo, Mocidade Independente, WorldTraveler, Rio Carnival 2010 Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, carnival rio de janeiro brazil carnaval samba mangueira brasil parade desfile tourism travel
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BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL – PARADE 2008
Carnival is the most famous holiday in Brazil.
It lasts four days and four nights.
It starts on Saturday and finishes on a Thursday.
People put on their costumes and go out into the streets or to clubs.
There are also the Samba schools
which make a parade showing their fantasies, music, and allegorical cars.
Every year each samba school displays a different theme which they have studied, incorporated the song that they have written, costumes and dances that all reflect their theme.
There are 14 Samba Schools in Sao Paulo parade and 12 in Rio de Janeiro.
In this video you’ll see images of both, Sao Paulo and Rio parade.
Enjoy it!
Duration : 0:7:59
Star Wars Carnival Costume Parade León Spain
This is a carnival parade where we joined up. Jedis vs Sith Clone trooper /clonetrooper Stormtrooper Republic commando Boba Fett Rebel pilot darth maul with double saber… Enjoy… and check out my other vids.
Duration : 0:7:27
Carnival in Brazil: Imperatriz (Narrated in English) Part 1 of 2
Samba School: Imperatriz Leopoldinense – February, 2005.
Part 1 of 2.
Three-time winner in a row (in 1999, 2000 and 2001 – ‘coincidently’ in the same years that the School President was heading the Judging Committee) which is the only current record holder challenged by Beija-Flor. Its success is due to its technically excellent performance. The School’s long-time female Carnival Designer, Rosa Magalhães makes idiosyncratic fairy-tale like artistic creations.
The highlight of Brazil Carnival is undoubtedly the Rio Samba Schools Parade, a totally unique event in the world.
The Rio Samba Parade is the review of a fierce competition between the Rio samba schools. The judges and spectators watch the principal parades in the Sambodromo which was especially built for this event.
The Samba Parade is something everybody should experience at least once in their life. The event is broadcast live to several countries.
The Rio Samba Parade is very distinctive from all other street parades held at some other places in the world. It is not a street happening where people move chaotically about as they like, but more of a highly orchestrated show of vast proportions. Every parader has a specific role and place according to his costume in a particular wing, of a particular section of the samba school he/she is parading in support of.
Each year each school chooses a different theme for the Samba Parade. It can be a celebration of a particular period, or, of famous figures of Brazilian history. It may highlight a special event or speak of anything that might move the spirit and imagination; like a special animal, or one of the elements; water or fire, etc. The school has to illustrate the chosen theme through all its work:
• the samba tunes, which are especially written for that year
• the richly decorated floats and costumes of their 3,000 to 5,000 parading members designed by the school’s Carnival Designer (the so called Carnavalesco).
The parade of every school is highly organized and designed. They line up in a unique way to present their pageant.
The costumes are extremely imaginative, colorful, elaborate and detailed. They are truly original, designed and made from scratch each year. They have mirrors, feathers, metallic cloth, silk and sometimes gems or coins. These costumes take months to make. The work starts roughly 8 months in advance.
You may think of the whole event as a tropical opera or rather like several operas happening on one night. It is beautiful to watch and the experience for the paraders themselves is so intense that the memories last for a lifetime.
Duration : 0:9:55
Trinidad Carnival 2009 (On De Road w/ BAMABAC)
Trinidad Carnival 2009. On the road with BAMABAC Crew – Carnival Tuesday. You know with us is always bacchanal!!! Now let’s talk about Carnival 2010 ! ! ! Check us out on facebook: www.facebook.com/IslandPics
Duration : 0:3:28
Carnival time: Pasistas & Batucadas in Gualeguaychu 2009, Argentina
Watch a better quality version at Welcome Argentina channel in YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvbR3b6XpTw
During Saturdays in January and February, and the first Saturday of March, the 2009 Gualeguaychu Carnival in Argentina transmits the audience happiness and make participants and viewers become infected with the audacious rhythm of the “batucadas” and the sexy dancing of the “pasistas” (main paraders), as they enjoy a show teeming with unprecedented brightness, light and sound.
The significant size of the Gualeguaychú “corsódromo” (carnival stadium) has enabled the “comparsas” to enlarge not only their squads but also the size of their floats, which are out of reach for any other carnival in the country.
This celebration and its artistic display have been around for over 20 years and is considered one of the most important carnival parades on earth, along with the carnivals of Rio de Janeiro and Venice.
Gualeguaychu Carnival general information and 2009 Photo Gallery at: http://www.welcomeargentina.com/carnavales/index_i.html
Gualeguaychu town general information at: http://www.welcomeargentina.com/gualeguaychu/index_i.html
More 2009 Carnival videos at:
http://www.youtube.com/interpatagonia
Duration : 0:3:32
Carnival Parade. St. Thomas, 2007
The last two days of Carnival are two parades with music, dance and outrageous costumes from the troupes. The Children’s Parade was Friday and lasted 6 hours. The Adult Parade was Saturday and lasted 9 hours. St. Thomas has one of the best Carnivals in the world. Next year, come and join us.
Duration : 0:6:13