Frevo

We are nearly to an end of our special! Today I will be speaking to all about Frevo! Frevo is a name of both a dance and music style from Recife, Pernambuco. Traditionally associated with the brasilian carnaval.

Frevo comes from ferver (to boil) it is said that the name is for the dances to feel as if the ground was boiling. The word Frevo, goes with the dance just as the music.

While I was doing my research about Frevo I was very intrigued to know about the story behind how Frevo became frevo. In my best way of getting the whole story short is that in the 19th century, Brasilian Army bands in Recife started to parade during caranaval.

Since carnaval comes with a catholic base they would play religious procession marches kind of music, a couple of regiments had famous bands that had many followers for people to compare one to another and cheer for the best. Such like blocos. The two biggest ones were Espanha (spanish) and 14' (for the 14 regime) the two would complete with each other and play louder and faster competing with each other. Some men would open space in front of the bands and treating others with capoeira and knives. Eventually when the bands met there were many fights sometimes even deaths to end such violence the police started to arrest the capoeira fighters, up until a better idea came around to fit some of the little famous umbrellas and voila the Frevo dance was born.

I personally love Frevo and would love to learn how to dance, a couple of days ago on a TV show a kid by the name of Davi is 6 years old and is already a professional. He began very early and is at the top of the advanced class. He is very talented and can already earn the title of a professional, I mean have a look at him dancing.

If I ever achieve half of this kidsability I will be very thrilled with life. Not only is frevo a very big presence in Recife but in Olinda a city nearby there are the paper mache dolls go around the city,just as it is in Rio, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and all the other cities. The only big difference of the blocos in Olinda are the dolls, which represent more cheerful protest then from your regular kind of march. Carnaval was created as well to be a platform of protest as to how some and many costumes are a satira to what is going on, most of the time it is a protest to our government.

And if you are wondering if there is a price to be paid as to if you would like to be a part of then here is your answer, it's FREE. As long as it is on the street then you will have nothing to worry about. There are private parties that you can look for as you arrive and the price's will very from one to another therefore I have no information as to that.

That's all for now guys, thanks for stopping by. See again tomorrow! Bye!