Gorgeous Afro Brazilian Dancers - Samba Routines

Meet the New 2015 Brazil Carnival Queen: https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=YZr2ryBLSEY Here we see the warm up of the samba dancers wing ( passistas ) from Estacio de Sa Samba School. Sometimes these samba "warm up" for the samba dancers can last for more than 45 minutes or more. Some aerobics specialists said that in a samba practice, 800 calories can be spent in one hour of real samba dancing. That is a lot! Below, we define exactly what is the defintion for passista: Ok, we all know Brazil is famous for its Carnival. But famous too, for its talented Carnival samba dancers, who have a specific name in Portuguese: the "passistas". But does everybody know who are these beautiful girls and women of all ages who devote their lives to the culture of carnival and samba dancing? Do you know where they come from, where they are born and raised? Do you know their specific functions within a samba-school? And where they end up? Do you know anything about their costumes? And what do they do at the Brazilian samba schools after their period of glory is over. This article will try to explain in basic terms who after all who are Brazilian Carnival Samba dancers: The "Passistas" who enchant samba and dance lovers all over the world. Passistas typical start dancing at their community, or the samba school they are attached to, at very early ages. Of course, then they are not called "passistas", just little girls dancing and having fun, like any place on the planet. But they already try to imitate the "big girls" as they call them, and specially, the "samba queens". Some of these girls of 6-8 years old, then move up a step. At the samba-schools, older "passistas" provide "formal" classes to these girls, as part of a series of social activities that some of the larger samba-schools in Rio provide. Later, according to their interest, they are invited to participate at a "childrens´wing" either at the samba-schools parade, like Beija-Flor, Mangueira, Imperatriz, Unidos da Tijuca, which have wing just for kids ( with a special permit & presence by their parents ) or they present themselves at the infant parade, which happen Friday, the real first day of Carnival in Rio. Passistas today are very different then they were in the past: Both at the samba-school, but also out of the samba-school. It is a consensus that very few passistas are able to support themselves just with samba. Most of the samba-schools have what it´s called "Grupo Show", which are Samba Dance Group shows and spectacles offered by the samba-schools to corporate events, parties, weddings, etc.. Only the top samba dancers make it to this elite team, even within the samba-school. But even though, being part of a samba group show, many are still unable to live exclusively by the samba dance, and have to establish themselves in professions as executive assistants, saleswomen, aestheticians, etc. Many too, because of this unfortunate scenario, "flee" to other countries of the world and establish themselves there because of financial opportunities. So, it has been proven passistas still can´t live just upon their passion, which is sad. As said before, most of them live / raised next to the samba-school they are closest to, in terms of location. The great majority until today´s time in Brazil come from middle class social stata. Many see the dance, apart from the passion and love for the carnival, a chance to move up the social status and be recognized as true artists, as we really think they are. We kind of see this movement, but unfortunately only during the carnival period. Later, most of them lead their regular lives and dance for pure pleasure, health and love for the carnival culture, without much glamour. Very few of them "make it to the top" of the social strata, unfortunately, and seen as true artists. We really think this must change, and society should recognize them and VALUE them. Samba dance, Passistas Estacio, Brazil dance, Brazilian Dancing, Warm up samba, Samba Calories, Bailando en Brasil, Samba Estacio Passistas, Passistas Estacio, Samba aerobics, Tanzen in Brazilein, Brazilian Girls samba, Practice samba, Practice Brazili dance, Samba girls contest, Queen of carnival, Diosas del carnival, Princess Carnival Contests, Carnival Pageant Cons test, Contests, Samba dancing Top Samba queen, 2013 brazilian samba, 2013 samba dancing, Rio Live queen dance, samba dance costumes, Rio samba dance school, samba dance studio, samba dance schools, 2013 girls carnival, samba dance exercise, latin samba dance, samba dance performance