Watching the glowing fantasy fest with multi-coloured Samba set of clothes design of daylight dressed dancers and the exciting floats gets even better when you understand the “enredo” or the samba school theme!
Every year each of Rio de Janeiro ‘s hundreds of Samba schools announce their carnival theme, or enredo which it is known in Portuguese, as an on going story sieving through every part of a samba school performance. The theme can be a story of famous persons, important events, political, and so on. The lyrics in the songs, the Samba costume design, the intense samba enredo dance, the samba in file sharing, drums and samba music, the carnival make up, shoe carnival and the fabulous floats and carnaval decorations, all contribute to the Samba City atmosphere and follow the enredo picked!!
The “enredo” has been subject to political pressure and even led to disqualification of a samba school during the military gouvernment of Vargas in 1939.
Below are shown some respective Samba schools with their theme (enredo) and matching carnival decorations and Samba costume design.
Worth noticing is Unidos da Tijuca focusing on science and development, while Salgueiro has alcohol as the futures combustion (even with a gocart doing circles on one of the lofts), while Mangueira is about the goldrush ( the golden times of Brazil with discoveries of many goldmines and the gold transport routes).
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