It’s as if the carnivalesque biological clock returned to the normal time zone and the heart began to beat at the rhythm of before —pulsed by snare drums, peals and tambourines, of course. This Friday (17) and Saturday (18), 14 schools from the São Paulo Special Group will once again parade at the Anhembi Sambódromo, in the northern region of the city of São Paulo, during the official Carnival period.
In 2022, the parade had to be postponed to the end of April, outside the carnival season, due to the omicron variant of the new coronavirus, which overwhelmed hospitals and health centers earlier in the year. In 2021, Carnival was not even celebrated as a sanitary measure in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Criticism of religious intolerance and racism are among the themes of the first night of parades, when São Paulo’s samba schools will also walk along the sea on the south coast of Rio de Janeiro or the Pantanal. Seven brotherhoods will be presented each day.
Translated by AZAHARA MARTIN ORTEGA
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