Last night, I got to see probably the most famous parade in the whole world and it was absolutely amazing! It made me think back to Mr. Groves samba drum lessons at Weobley but multiplied thousands of times over!
The parades take place over three nights with six competitors each night and each competitor is a different samba school. Samba schools aren't educational schools but huge groups of people that work really hard on each year's parade. They must compose their own music, make their own floats, design their own costumes and choreograph their own dance moves. It is a huge job as each performance contains six floats and lasts over an hour. The schools that have taken part in 2013 will now already be working on what they will do in 2014.
I will challenge anyone to go to the parade and not be able to dance even the littlest bit, it is impossible not to! There are so many amazing memories I couldn't list them all but my favourite float was a huge waterslide with dancers sliding down it and my favourite costumes had to belong to the traditonal dancers with their huge feathers whipping around as they samba danced down the long road.
Did You Know?: The parade is not just one big party, each school gets marks from a group of judges who watch each performance carefully before deciding a winner.
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