Samba’s music and dance have roots in Africa, specifically Angola and Congo. These days, samba schools are being launched throughout the world as far away as Australia and Russia. Unlike dances from other Latin American countries, samba has largely stayed inside Brazil’s borders but has become hugely popular in recent years. “We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make the mark.” “It is very intimidating,” Hahn-Chaplin told the Associated Press about dancing as a foreigner in front of several hundred people at rehearsals. Passistas and drummers, all wearing yellow clothing, temporarily turn the dark street into a small Sambadrome.
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Once a week, the students join the full Paraiso do Tuiuti for a rehearsal on the road leading up to the school. It is evidence of their loyalty to samba. But leaving their jobs for long periods is not. All foreigners have passed a difficult exam to join this high-level course and train with Brazilians who have danced samba since childhood. On the floor in front of the dancers lies a soft, thin object which they must avoid touching with each step as their teacher calls out the tempo. Doing these things well together is important to the dance form. Their hips go to the right and left as they keep their heads and shoulders as still as possible. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)ĭuring classes, students dressed in athletic wear can be seen moving their feet in the quick samba steps as their arms make circles. 15, 2020 photo, performers of the Paraiso do Tuiuti samba school practice in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tens of millions of people watch the television broadcast from their living rooms.Īfter the parade, the non-Brazilian dancers return to their home countries and share their passion for samba. Each year, 70,000 people fill the seats to enjoy the show. At the world-famous celebrations in Rio, they will dance for more than an hour through the massive Sambadrome parade space. During Carnival season, these dancers spend a month or more at the samba schools.
The 31-year-old is part of a movement of foreigners who come to Brazil each year to train in the ways of samba dance.
Paraiso do Tuiuti has been a home of Carnival culture for people in the working-class area near central Rio for over 60 years. All of it is in preparation for the big day itself, which happens this year on February 23. In Rio and other cities across Brazil, the weeks before Carnival are filled with the lively rehearsals and parades of samba schools. She is in Rio de Janeiro to study the techniques of passistas through the Paraiso do Tuiuti samba school. Jessica Hahn-Chaplin smiles for cameras while wearing the beautiful yellow clothing and high heel shoes of passista samba dancers.
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