![]() ![]() Rio's block parties during Carnival went late into the night and early morning. I also learned that winning the best samba school is a big deal - my Brazilian friends said the winning group gets a trophy, champion title for the year, and is often congratulated by Brazilian celebrities, musicians, and politicians in attendance. In the audience, I could feel how excited everyone was to join in the celebration. These local friends knew the song for our booth's school by heart, and in the crowd, I heard many other parade attendees singing their school songs, too. Besides performances, each school also creates their own song for that year's festival. My Brazilian friends told me that the samba schools prepare for Carnival for a full year. The dances were beautiful to watch, and I was blown away by the scale of the floats and the attention to detail in the decorations and costumes. In the stadium, performances by dancers from the samba schools were scheduled all day long, with each school performing for several hours. I saw other attendees singing proudly and some brought to tears as paraders danced by.Ĭarnival floats can take months to create. I loved seeing how much the Carnival festivities are invested in and celebrated, and it made me feel proud of my heritage. It was festive and boisterous inside our booth, and interacting with dancers in the parades who came up to us made me feel like we were all one big, supportive family.Īttending the parade was emotional for me, because many of the people on the floats were also Afro-Brazilians who looked like me. ![]() Each float was sponsored by a different local samba dance group, and each group had a reserved seating area, called a camarote, where guests wore matching T-shirts or outfits to support and applaud the difference dance schools. On multiple days, friends and I sat in a booth seating section for our friend's samba dance school, Beija-Flor, which had a float and performers in the parades. The author's friends at Sambadrome Stadium, left, and a Carnival float, right.Ĭarnival's parades and dance performances took place all day long in the Sambadrome Stadium. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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