Portela. A Samba school parades in the Sambadrome in the 2014 Carnival.
A samba school (Portuguese: Escola de samba) is a dancing, marching, and drumming (Samba Enredo) club. They practice and often perform in a huge square-compounds ("quadras de samba") and are devoted to practicing and exhibiting samba, an Afro-Brazilian dance and drumming style. Although the word "school" is in the name, samba schools do not offer instruction in a formal setting.[1] Samba schools have a strong community basis and are traditionally associated with a particular neighborhood. They are often seen to affirm the cultural validity of the Afro-Brazilian heritage in contrast to the mainstream education system,[2] and have evolved often in contrast to authoritarian development.[3] The phrase "escola de samba" is popularly held to derive from the schoolyard location of the first group's early rehearsals.[2] In Rio de Janeiro especially, they are mostly associated with poor neighborhoods ("favelas").[citation needed] Samba and the samba school can be deeply interwoven with the daily lives of the shanty-town dwellers.[4] Throughout the year the samba schools have various happenings and events, most important of which are rehearsals for the main event which is the yearly carnival parade. Each of the main schools spend many months each year designing the theme, holding a competition for their song, building the floats and rehearsing. It is overseen by a carnavalesco or carnival director. From 2005,[5][6] some fourteen of the top samba schools in Rio have used a specially designed warehouse complex, the size of ten football pitches,[7] called Samba City (Cidade do Samba) to build and house the elaborate floats. Each school's parade may consist of about 3,000 performers or more, and the preparations, especially producing the many different costumes, provide work for thousands of the poorest in Brazilian society.[8] The resulting competition is a major economic and media event, with tens of thousands in the live audience and screened live to millions across South America.
^Renata de Sá Gonçalves, "The traditional samba school dance as a performative experience", "Paper not available". Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2014. accessed 12 March 2014
^ abDils A., Albright A., (eds.) "Moving History / Dancing Cultures - A Dance History Reader", Wesleyan University Press 2001:169.
^Guillermoprieto, A., "Samba", Jonathan Cape 1990:23-25.
^Samba, a documentary directed by Ella Jessouroun, 2001.
^"Cidade do Samba do Rio de Janeiro - SITE OFICIAL". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
^"Cidade do Samba do Rio de Janeiro - SITE OFICIAL". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
^"Cidade do Samba do Rio de Janeiro - SITE OFICIAL". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
^"Imperatriz do Carnival" a documentary directed by Fernando Schultz, 2004.
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