Post 4: Brazilian Carnival

My favorite festivity is the Carnival in Brazil. The Carnival is celebrated in Brazil every year, 46 days before the “Easter festival” and celebrate for a weeklong to receive spring.

Carnival festivities in Brazil date back to 1723 with the Portuguese immigrants from Madeira and Cabo Verde .People went out onto the streets with buckets of water and threw mud and food, which often ended up in street brawls and riots. The concepts kept changing throughout the 1800s with more organized parades like the great societies where the Emperor joined in the celebrations with a group of aristocrats that paraded in masks with luxurious costumes and music.

Nowadays in the carnival it features more than 100 block parades, many of which are supported by the students and staff of the city's samba schools. Rio's Carnival is heavily influenced by the favelas, the poorest neighborhoods in the city. Favelas residents are often members of local samba schools and participate extensively in group performances. Famous groups include groups of Ipanema, Carmelitas, Cordao do Bola Preta and Suvaco do Cristo. Every neighborhood in the city has its own street band, with more than 300 bands participating in the revelry. The celebration is the culmination of months of preparation and brings many different types of people together.

I personally love this festivity for all the colors and costumes they use, all the preparation that is done, to generate a great show and party, in a future that I hope will not be so far away I would love to go to this great party, the music, the famous Samba and the friendly atmosphere are very appealing to me.

I would very much like to be able to participate in one schools of dance of the carnival, and to dance and to enjoy I think that would be a fantastic experience.