Solange Gomes, godmother of the drum band of samba school Camisa Verde e Branco - photo: Flavio Moraes/G1
Fourteen schools performed on two nights of Carnival São Paulo, starting Friday night 17 Febr.2012 in the Sambódromo of Anhembi in the north of the capital.
Ellen Cardoso, aka Mulher Moranguinho, Queen of the drum band of Camisa Verde e Branco - photo: Flavio Moraes/G1
Samba school Camisa Verde e Branco, vice-champion of the Access Group in 2011 opened the parades. Império de Casa Verde, X-9 Paulistana, Vai-Vai, Rosas de Ouro, Acadêmicos do Tucuruvi and Mancha Verde followed in this order. The last school entered the Sambódromo between 5am and 6am and finished the parades of the first day.
Dancers of the samba school Camisa Verde e Branco during the parade in the Sambódromo in Anhembi - photo: Flavio Moraes/G1
In this first post the first four samba schools. The last three of the first day in a following post.
Camisa Verde e Branco
Camisa Verde e Branco prepared a show based on the noblest of feelings: love. According to the carnivalesque Anselmo Brito, the theme was chosen based on the time experienced by humanity and by the school. “People just talk about war, families do not feel good. So we want to open the carnival in São Paulo with a theme lighter, happier, and also celebrate the return of Camisa Verde e Branco”.
A group of Baianas of Camisa Verde e Branco - photo: Flavio Moraes/G1
The parade of samba school Camisa Verde e Branco - photo: Flavio Moraes/G1
The dancer Fernanda Passos of the samba school Camisa Verde e Branco - photo: Flavio Morais/G1
The flag bearer and master of ceremonies of Camisa Verde e Branco - photo: Flavio Morais/G1
King Momo and the Queen of Carnival 2012. The Queen, Andreza Sobrinho, appears here in the first of 34 samba schools with which she will parade throughout the revelry - photo: Flavio Morais/G1
The samba dancer Fernanda Passos with members of the samba school Camisa Verde e Branco - photo: Joseph Patrick / AE
Império de Casa Verde
Next comes Império de Casa Verde, with the theme “In the optic of my empire, the focus is you”, which will lead to Anhembi a reflection on the vision and development of equipment that allow a better view, such as glasses, microscopes and telescopes.
Andreia Andrade, godmother of the drums of Império de Casa Verde - photo: Raul Zito / G1
ValeskaReis, Queen of the drums of samba school Império de Casa Verde - photo: Raul Zito / G1
Float of Império de Casa Verde that opened the show - photo: Flavio Moraes/G1
Float of Império de Casa Verde - photo: Raul Zito/G1
Richly decorated float of Império de Casa Verde - photo: Raul Zito/G1
Members of Império de Casa Verde dancing the samba - photo: Raul Zito/G1
Concentration before the start of the parade of Império de Casa Verde - photo: Raul Zito/G1
Império de Casa Verde was second to enter the Anhembi. In the photo, the muse Valeska Reis - photo: Raul Zito/G1
Master of ceremonies and the flag-bearer greet the public in Anhembi - photo: Flavio Morais / G1
Império de Casa Verde brought a very colourful parade - photo: Flavio Morais / G1
X-9 Paulistana
Here comes X-9 Paulistana promising a journey of rediscovery of the Brazilian sertão (hinterland), with the storyline the commemoration of the 20th edition “Rally dos Sertões”.
Float in the parade of samba school X-9 Paulistana in Anhembi - photo: Joseph Patrick / State Agency
X-9 Paulistana celebrated the dust of the roads of the backlands - photo: Vanessa Carvalho / AFP Photo
A highlight of the samba school X-9 Paulistana - photo: Flavio Moraes/G1
Muse of X-9 Paulistana shows sympathy in the parade - photo: Raul Zito/G1
Rosana Ferreira, Miss Bumbum, was one of the highlights on the ground in the parade of samba school X-9 Paulistana - photo: Raul Zito / G1
Rosana Ferreira, Miss Bumbum, was one of the highlights on the ground in the parade of samba school X-9 Paulistana - photo: Raul Zito/G1
Muse of X-9 Paulistana shows her beauty in Anhembi. The plot of the school the parade spoke about the Brazilian sertão (backlands) - photo: Raul Zito/G1
Bruna Fonseca (right), princess of the drums of X-9 Paulistana, paraded in Anhembi - photo: Flavio Morais/G1
Vai-Vai
The champion of last year, Vai-Vai, was the fourth school to parade, and showed a parade about the feminine universe and the contribution that women had in the progress of Brazil.
Dancer of Vai-Vai excited about her samba school - photo: Raul Zito / G1
The reporter of the TV-program 'Mais você' (More You), Nádia Bochi, accepted the challenge of being the flag bearer - photo: Raul Zito / G1
Ana Hickmann, one of the highlights of Vai-Vai, represented the brightness of the stars. Theme of the story was: “Women who shine - the feminine force in social progress and cultural development” - photo: Raul Zito / G1
Member with a fantasy of Emilia, from the TV-program 'Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo‘ (Site of the Yellow Woody Woodpecker) - photo: Flavio Morais / G1
One of the highlights of Vai-Vai had trouble with her 'fantasy' - photo: Flavio Morais / G1
Highlight of a dancing group of samba school Vai Vai - photo: Flavio Moraes/G1
Highlight of the float which opened the parade of Vai-Vai, representing the Garden of Eden - photo: Raul Zito / G1
In 2012, Vai-Vai paraded with 31 dancing groups and five floats - photo: Flavio Morais/G1
The school clearly invested in sensuality - photo: Flavio Morais/G1
Champion of the São Paulo Carnival in 2011, Vai-Vai this time honoured the women heroines - photo: Flavio Morais/G1
Dancer Camila Silva, Queen of the drums of samba school Vai Vai - photo: Juliana Cardilli/G1
Muse singing and dancing the Vai-Vai samba - photo: Flavio Morais/G1
Ok, these were the first 4 groups, later today the other 3 of the first day in São Paulo.
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