Showing posts with label Carnival 2014. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Samba Dancers 2014 - (2) - Brazil's Carnival turns focus to glitzy parades

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By JENNY BARCHFIELD March 3, 2014 12:20 AM

Brazil's Carnival turns focus to glitzy parades
PHOTO: Brazil's Carnival turns focus to glitzy parades
A performer from the Imperio da Tijuca samba school parades on a float during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil is known for its exotic fauna, but the creatures on display Sunday night for the opening round of Rio's exuberant Carnival parade were a motley crew even by local standards.

Full grown adults dressed up as Nemo the fish rubbed shoulders with weightlifting wolves with enviable six-packs, while bare-breasted dancers gyrated atop floats shaped like giant crustaceans or bedecked with XXL ants.


Sexiest Nude Dancing Woman From Brazilian Carnival 2014


PHOTO: Sexiest Nude Dancing Woman From Brazilian Carnival 2014
Thousands of revellers and samba dancers took to the street for the opening night of the annual carnival celebrations. Samba dancers wearing bodypaint, feathers, glitter- and not a lot else - have taken to the streets of Sao Paulo for the opening of the country's wild carnival festivities.
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The Carnival competition sees the city's top samba groups, or schools, parade in the Sambadrome, each delivering an over-the-top, hour-long display aimed at capturing the annual title.

No excess is deemed too much, and each year the bar is raised that much higher. Sunday's all-night-long displays saw a float shaped like a mammoth wedding cake presided over by a larger-than-life Pope Francis, a herd of elderly gentlemen in jewel-toned bull costumes complete with sequin-covered horns, and a dancing teepee surrounded by native Brazilians in green feather headdresses.


Carnival is celebrated in towns and villages throughout Brazil, but the festivities in Sao Paulo and capital Brasilia are the biggest - with around half a million foreign tourists flocking to the country every year.


PHOTO: Carnival is celebrated in towns and villages throughout Brazil, but the festivities in Sao Paulo and capital Brasilia are the biggest - with around half a million foreign tourists flocking to the country every year.
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Though each school ostensibly has a theme, the costumes are often so varied and sometimes unidentifiable that it can be hard to identify the common thread.

Imperio da Tijuca, the school that opened this year's competition, was ostensibly fielding an African theme, so its huge crab-shaped float was a perplexing choice. Mangueira, one of the most famous schools known for its distinctive green and pink colors, turned to Carnival itself for a parade that feted Brazil's traditional celebrations in a sea of salmon pink and lime green feathers.


Dancers from local samba schools put on a spectacular parade through the huge Sambadrome arena as up to 30,000 revellers looked on. Similar to Mardi Gras, the five-day-long street party builds up to Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. The carnival's excesses are considered an


PHOTO: Dancers from local samba schools put on a spectacular parade through the huge Sambadrome arena as up to 30,000 revellers looked on. Similar to Mardi Gras, the five-day-long street party builds up to Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the Christian season of Lent. The carnival's excesses are considered an "act of farewell to the pleasures of the flesh," before Lent, during which Christians are supposed to abstain from bodily pleasures.
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Each school has legions of loyal followers, many of whom parade for the same group for decades or root for their favorite from the bleachers.

"I paraded for 15 years for one school," said Jose Vieira, a retired restaurateur who was soaking in the action from one of the exclusive areas sponsored by top Brazilian companies where the elite gather to drink free beer and watch the parade from above. "It's a wonderful experience. Even from up here in this nice space, I really miss being down there."


Performers from the Grande Rio samba school, during the first night of Carnival in Rio, on March 2,


PHOTO: Performers from the Grande Rio samba school, during the first night of Carnival in Rio, on March 2, 2014. (Tasso Marcelo/AFP/Getty Images)
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Each samba school is judged in 10 categories, from the quality of the drum sections to the beauty of the costumes. Whichever group comes in last falls from the top-tier competition into a lower category contest.

The competition continues Monday night with displays by six additional schools.


A dancer from the Grande Rio samba school performs during the first night of Carnival, on March 2, 2014.


PHOTO: A dancer from the Grande Rio samba school performs during the first night of Carnival, on March 2, 2014. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)
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Rio's Carnival celebrations aren't limited to the Sambadrome, where even a ticket for the bleachers can cost hundreds of dollars. The city is also the site of nearly 500 raucous, beer-fueled street parties that begin at daybreak and pulse through the night.
By JENNY BARCHFIELD March 3, 2014 12:20 AM

 Rio de Janeiro, the official annual carnival 2014.


PHOTO: Rio de Janeiro, the official annual carnival 2014.
The first day is the traditional parade of samba schools.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, Feb. 3. The Rio Carnival 2014 is one of the most important and surprising in the carnival scene in South America events.
PHOTO: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL, Feb. 3. The Rio Carnival 2014 is one of the most important and surprising in the carnival scene in South America events.
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 Rio Carnival Parades (2013) at the Sambadrome


 PHOTO: Rio Carnival Parades (2013) at the Sambadrome
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 Topless dancers during a parade in Rio de Janeiro this February 27. More than 470 dance and music groups on 2nd and 3rd of March 2014.


PHOTO: Topless dancers during a parade in Rio de Janeiro this February 27. More than 470 dance and music groups on 2nd and 3rd of March 2014.
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The build up to the Brazilian carnival 2014
PHOTO: The build up to the Brazilian carnival 2014
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 Topless dancers during a parade in Rio de Janeiro this February 27.


PHOTO: Topless dancers during a parade in Rio de Janeiro this February 27.
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Sunday, March 2, 2014

Samba Dancers 2014 - (1) - Rio De Janeiro Carnival 2014 - King Momo kicks off riotous Rio carnival

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By AFP, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | Sat, Mar 1 2014


Wilson Dias da Costa Neto, a smiling, moonfaced 27-year-old chosen as this year's Momo
PHOTO: Wilson Dias da Costa Neto, a smiling, moonfaced 27-year-old chosen as this year's Momo
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RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio plunged into five days of hedonistic revelry Friday as the city's legendary carnival opened, with King Momo taking the keys of the city and declaring joy by decree.

Wilson Dias da Costa Neto, a smiling, moonfaced 27-year-old chosen as this year's Momo, swept in by limousine flanked by the carnival queen and two princesses to assume his festive reign.

"In the name of the prefecture and as the monarch of the world's largest street festival, I decree joy," Momo beamed.

Mayor Eduardo Paes joked as he passed him the keys: "I hope you'll be able to sort out the city centre's problems with automobile traffic!"

In reality, within hours, the city's streets will be so clogged with a gyrating mass of samba drummers and sequinned dancers that cars will for once be forced to take a back seat.

This year's festivities are set to be even more frenzied than usual as Brazil prepares to host the World Cup for a month from June 12.

"Finally, it's carnival!" blared the Globo daily as the phoney war gave way to a flurry of activity as the final touches were put to the spectacular floats which will glide through the city from early Saturday, when Cordão da Bola Preta, Rio's oldest group founded in 1918, will parade before an estimated 1.8 million people.


Rio De Janeiro Carnival 2014
PHOTO: Rio De Janeiro Carnival 2014
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Beatlemania... samba-style
Dozens of other blocos will parade in different parts of town across the five days - including Sargento Pimenta (Sergeant Pepper), who will Monday pound out Beatles music to a samba beat.

A dozen samba schools will compete Sunday and Monday in the Special Parade, which will draw around 70,000 spectators to the city's fabled Sambadrome.

Some 30,000 people were set to watch parades in the business hub Sao Paulo, more staid than Rio but catching pre-World Cup fever - the giant city will stage the June 12 opening match.

Rio's top samba schools, each comprising thousands of performers, will parade along the 700-meter (yard) Marqués de Sapucai avenue leading to the Sambadrome designed by celebrated Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.

Adding to the millions of local revelers, city hall expects more than 900,000 tourists to throng the jam-packed streets - some two per cent more than last year - with revenues forecast at around $400 million.

They will more than make up for those residents who pack their bags at this time of year to escape the constant din.

Sporadic public protests in recent months against political corruption and the multibillion cost of the World Cup have prompted police to step up security in Rio, which will host seven World Cup matches, including the July 13 final.

Thursday, the eve of the carnival, had seen the Ocupa Carnaval pressure group hold a spoof mini-carnival while the Banda da Rua do Mercado bloco held a topless march with actress Ana Paula Goncalves Nogueira, suitably unrobed, at its head.

Some in the Ocupa Carnaval group held aloft giant puppets representing city rulers, their pockets stuffed with money; others linked arms with the tentacles of a huge black model octopus representing the long reach of corrupt politicians.

"But tomorrow's carnival and that is sacred. There won't be protests - it's a valve to let out the frustration with politics," one local, Reinaldo Alves dos Santos, told AFP.


Rio De Janeiro Carnival 2014
PHOTO: Rio De Janeiro Carnival 2014
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Nationwide fever
By Sunday night, some four million people will have let their hair down and many will carry on through Tuesday's official close and beyond.

Brazil's passion for carnival was also enveloping the northeastern city of Salvador de Bahia, the cradle of Brazil's African heritage, where huge blocos have since Wednesday been parading in the paved streets of the city's old town.

Further north, Recife and neighbouring Olinda are hosting thousands of dancers performing the "frevo", a rhythm inspired by martial arts-cum-dance capoeira, led by the "Galo de Madrugada" (morning cockerel) troupe.

In a nod to the World Cup, one Sao Paulo school was honoring 2002 world champion Ronaldo and another in Rio chose 1980s star Zico as its theme.
By AFP, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | Sat, Mar 1 2014


Women in the Sambodrome parade wear very little clothing and dance sensually down the avenue, sometimes practically naked.
PHOTO: Women in the Sambodrome parade wear very little clothing and dance sensually down the avenue, sometimes practically naked. Many men, as a result, falsely assume that all Brazilian women are scantily-clad, sex-crazed, and provocative beings, incorrectly connecting costumes and dance with sexual habits. Carnival is a celebration and in the case of Rio's Carnival, a performance. Dancing in a bikini does not translate to nymphomania.
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Brazilian Carnival Muse Barenaked
PHOTO: Nude Carnaval Beauties (valeria valenssa) - Globaleza 2013
The fabulous Valeria Valenssa, a samba dancer who danced nude with her body painted on TV Globo as "Globaleza," a sexy symbol of Carnaval, and who also paraded in Rio with Portela and other samba schools.
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The build up to the Brazilian carnival 2014
PHOTO: The build up to the Brazilian carnival 2014
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