November 5th 2012, 10.30
I
admit it .... I'm a terrible dancer but now that I have arrived in Brazil I
can’t not improvise a few steps of samba!
:)
The
thing that surprised me is that the majority of the population lives in poverty and although they do not have enough food and money, they do not ever miss the smile
and joy to live!
João, the owner of the guesthouse where I stay, I advice
me a lot of places to visit
and one of these is the Sambadrome!
The Sambadrome
was designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1984 and in the last two years, it has been
expanded to contain more people. It was created to became the temple of samba
during Carnival of Rio, in fact every year, in February, the most important
samba school parade in it!
I didn’t
know samba is so famous in Brazil
and in particular in Rio and Sant Paul! João say me that in Rio there is an organization of
the most important samba school called “Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba
do Rio de Janeiro” founded in the same year of Sambadrome, but the tradition to
dancing samba is more older than the organization. Samba schools are divided in
groups, from the most talented to less, they focus every efforts to preparation
of Carnival, they choose the topic to build allegorical wagons then they choose
the music that play the band and the choreography but only the most famous
groups dancing in Sambadrome, the others parading in Avenida Rio Branco, that
is a long street in the centre of Rio. Moreover every year, before the
beginning of Carnival there is the incoronation of the Carnival’s queen, and
this year the queen of 2013 is Evelyn Bastos, she is 19 and dancing for the
Mangueira school, one of the most popular samba school!
Brazil is beautiful!!:)
I find your work really interesting, and in this case also funny. Your idea to write a travel diary is very original. Now I want to visit Japan and also Brazil and, why not, dance Samba during Rio's Carnival.
RispondiEliminaWhat will be Berto's next destination? I suggest you Spain or Holland. In both the nightlife is very lively and fun is assured.
Valeria Turozzi
*What will Berto's next destination be? I suggest Spain or Holland.
Eliminathanks :) I have not yet decided which will be the new destination ... as always I will decide at the last minute :)but here I still have many things to discover so for the moment I remain Brazil:)
RispondiElimina