Brazil Carnival 2008

Mangueira Samba School

Colors: Pink & Green

Address: Street Visconde de Niterói, 1072, Hose

                 Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Mangueira is much more than a traditional Carnival samba school. This school is one of a kind in the way they manage to show true neighborhood support and the ability to help a community and its members succeed with pride all year long. These lovely dancers not only train year long to create the perfect story they also work within the community to better Rio de Janeiro and the neighborhood they have considered home for so long.

Samba schools took longer to rise from the poorer neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro Brazil but like more influential neighborhoods the less fortunate managed to rise and make their ability to samba, not to mention their love for their culture, known.

One of the first samba schools do to this was Mangueira. Originally in the slums, this samba school was born near a hill of the same name and decided to use it as an offering to their people.

The dancers of Mangueira dance a samba unlike any others. They are not only one of the special Carnival groups they are one of the more popular along with schools like Portela. One of the things that make Mangueira so popular is the use of their cultural heritage. Not one to forget where they came from, this group of highly trained dancers use their homeland and their upbringing to open up their stories of samba to those around them.

From the beautiful and talented woman, the breathtaking moves, the encapsulating music, the outstanding costumes, to the beautiful and outstanding school colors of pink and green, everything about Mangueira makes you stand up and take notice.

The Mangueira is one of Rio de Janeiro’s most popular samba school to date. The samba dancers have won numerous competitions including the very first Carnival Parade Championship in 1932 and the first Parade that was ever held in the Sambadrome in 1984