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This is one of the 12 Samba Schools that was competing this year at the famous Sambodrome. Each School has 70 minutes to complete the parade and several judges give points and penalties for hundreds of key points and events during the run.

If you haven´t seen the parade in person, we would like to share this video so you can get a taste and hopefully get the chance to watch it in person next year - It´s a memory of a lifetime!!

On the night of this Thursday, Acadêmicos do Grande Rio launched in its square the synopsis of the plot that will take to the Avenue during Carnival 2024: “Our destiny is to be a jaguar”, by carnival artists Gabriel Haddad and Leonardo Bora, talks about the creation of the world from the perspective of the worldview of the Tupinambá people, which connects with the views of Brazilian and Latin indigenous people, taking the jaguar as a symbol.

Bora indicated that he expects a brave, courageous, open-hearted samba, which embraces and incorporates enchantment and Pajelança. In a calling tone, he said: “We are going to enter the Avenue bitten and biting, banging our sticks on the ground, wanting to win the championship”. In the same vein, Gabriel Haddad asked all the participants to transform themselves and feel like jaguars at the parade. “We are going with our claws bared and our teeth sharp, seeking this title with a lot of attitude”, he added.

SYNOPSIS
There are countless stories that tell the origins of the world. Creation, destruction, recreation – eternal return. Here, we will talk about “eternal becoming”. Immortality and the future! In the wake of Alberto Mussa's trails, the restored Tupinambá myth is a mosaic of worldviews from indigenous nations that inhabited (and still inhabit) Brazil thousands of years ago. The author himself states, at the beginning of “My destiny is to be a jaguar”:

At least 11 thousand years ago – a very old date for South America – the Brazilian Amazon began to be occupied by humans. (...) There is much evidence that the forest people profoundly influenced the lives of other Amerindian populations, extending their intellectual penetration to the Andes, before the 'evolved' Andean civilizations emerged. At a time that is still very difficult to identify, for reasons that are still unknown, one of these people abandoned their native region to begin one of the largest migratory processes in the Americas. I'm talking about the Tupi-Guarani. (...) It is not difficult to imagine that they took a north-south direction, towards the Paraguay and Paraná basins, later reaching the southern coast of Brazil, to expand again in a south-north direction, up to Ceará – always running away from the cerrado and preferring the denser forests.”

Occupying a central position in the mythical narratives of the people so complex that they designed the contours of Brazil's coastline and were connected both to the heart of the Amazon and to the other Amerindian societies of what is now understood as Latin America, here is the sign of this plot: the jaguar. A living metaphor for anthropophagic rituals, the jaguar is a key to thinking about Brazilian identity disputes and our eternal capacity to devour in order to recreate – and be reborn, resprout, fight back, swallow. Insurgency and power! More than the animal itself, the animal, the idea of ​​“devouring” - jaguar. The divine, sacred being, who built kingdoms, in our imagination. He embroidered with strength and bravery the oral narratives of the original peoples, the legends sewn into festivities and songs, the strings of the Armorial engine, the Rio de Janeiro carnival itself, in some of its best presentations. Today, it expresses the struggles of many people – and, with teeth and claws bared, it will also express the victory of Grande Rio!

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