Carnival in Brazil is a huge business. It starts in about 10 days. Today we toured a huge complex where the floats are made. We learned about how each team's entry into the Carnival festival is judged. We had the opportunity to make fools of ourselves by donning a Carnival costume.
Each team's entry for Carnival costs about 5 million US dollars. We had no choice about what costumes we were given to wear.
Samba dancers tried to teach us some very basic steps and the drummers taught use some basic rhythms.
On our tour we saw many items that had been on previous Carnival floats.
Looking up-close you can see that the work can be very intricate. Carnival is a very important part of Brazilian Culture. Plans for the event go on all year around. It is watched on TV and tickets to attend in person rival the price os Superbowl tickets although there are cheap seat for $15 to $30 US dollars because the event location is huge.
3 comments:
Looks like fun! But you didn’t include the video of you learning the dance moves! -Mark
oh, wow... that's quite the costume Mom.. I hope you are bringing that one back to Oregon
I have always wanted to see Carnival in Rio. It's actually on my bucket list - marta
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