2/18/2024 0 Comments Rio de janeiro carnival dancersDrum queen Juliana Paes from Grande Rio samba school performs during the first night of the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 12, 2018 Rosane Borges, who teaches journalism at the University of Sao Paulo, pointed out however that the Carnival always was, and still is, a form of cleansing oneself from sin it is a realm of pure freedom so it’s small wonder that the image of a woman is being sexualized, often up to a point of vulgarity. We dance because we want to make people happy, not to listen to these bawdy jokes they’re so unpleasant,” Ariane said. We come to the Carnival because we like it. “They think that if you’re a samba dancer they have a right to caress you and say something salacious, but that’s not true. “They tell me ‘Oh, you’re from Rio, you’re black, so you must be a samba dancer.’ No! Why they assume that I have to be able to dance? Because I have black skin and I’m from Rio? No!” she fumed. Racial PrejudiceĪccording to Ariane, she also often encounters a peculiar form of prejudice when people immediately assume that she’s a samba dancer because she’s black. The Carnival is my life, so I chose the Carnival,” the dancer said. “He told me to choose between the Carnival and himself. Family MattersĪ samba dancers’ family life is often fraught with complications.įor example, Rayane ended up divorcing her husband who was against his wife’s love of carnival dancing.Īriane Assis de Santana Azevedo, a 21-year old representative of the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school, also broke up with her boyfriend under similar circumstances. ![]() I’d even say that women get even more respect during the Carnival,” she remarked. “I experience indecent behavior of others towards myself every day, even outside of the Carnival. “We are being harassed always and everywhere,” Rayane said.Īnd Fernanda Florentino, representing Império da Tijuca, Paraíso do Tuiuti and Lins Imperial, also confirmed that sexual harassment toward dancers is not limited to carnival performances. ![]() ![]() Her concerns were echoed by Rayane da Silva Ferreira, a dancer representing the Acadêmicos do Salgueiro samba school, who claimed that the image of a female dancer at the Carnival is being “overly sexualized.” Drum queen Raissa de Oliveira from Beija-Flor samba school performs during the second night of the Carnival parade at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 13, 2018 Viviane explained that female dancers have to deal with this kind of prejudice both at dancing schools and in everyday life, and that she has been approached to become a prostitute on numerous occasions. However, when we dance we represent our block, and people seem to be unable to differentiate between these aspects,” Viviane said. The sensuality and the bodily aspect that are intrinsic to the dancers, they are not bad by themselves. “The image of a woman in Carnival is very complex, not just for those on the ‘inside’ but for the people on the ‘outside’ as well.
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