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Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 20 (EFE), .- Renata da Silva Angelo is a 35- year-old plus-size sambist, is part of a group of women who decided to break the beauty stereotypes of the Rio Carnival to dance with confidence at the biggest party in Brazil.(CAMERA: Janaína Quinet) Translations: Renata da Silva Angelo: "I always wanted to be a dancer, but the dancer is required to have a sculptural female body, she is the image of seduction, and when I saw the opportunity to be a plus-sized passista, I said, that's my chance."Kennely da Silva: "The fat dancers used to wear big, hot and very heavy clothes, we didn't even have the option to have our costumes evolve because schools don't think of the fattest people and the costumes are huge things, which is exhausting." "I went through a very difficult personal process, I had to rebuild myself, I am still doing it, and finding this project is something that I cannot explain in words. It is very beautiful, it is magical!""We have to produce ourselves to be beautiful because we are here to live and not worry about a pattern."Nilma Duarte: "When I started, I thought it was just working to invite more women to dance, but this has done more. They have come with traumas , wounded, sensitive, with a lack of self-love, and lack of love from others, so much that when you extend your hand, many do not even think you want to help them. They are like a diamond in the rough who needs to be polished.""Self-love is like a perfume; where you pass you exhale that aroma and if you don't have love, then how will you give it. That's what I do."
With a swirl of glitter, sequins and samba, Rio de Janeiro kicks off its famed carnival parades, the climax of the festival's first full-on edition since Covid-19 and Brazil's bitterly divisive elections. IMAGES
Montevideo, Feb 17 (EFE), (Camera: Sergio Marin and Raul Martinez) .- Entertainment is the main goal of Balele, a Uruguayan troupe formed by blind people. FOOTAGE OF CARNIVAL PARADE IN MONTEVIDEO.SOUNDBITES OF VIA IROLDI, MEMBER OF BALELE:"For us, for blind people the cane is essential. In our homer or places we know we don’t use it, but it is inconceivable when we are in the streets. When they told me that we wouldn’t use the crane my reaction was ‘No way, it is not possible’. It feels like you are naked, you don’t have the tool that you always have. In the streets there is much noise, the pavement is irregular, all the streets are different…”
Millions of revelers dance to the beat in the streets of Brazil for five days celebrating Carnival, though in some cities the party will continue.
Glittering in fanciful, flesh-flaunting costumes, thousands of Brazilians bouncing to sultry samba beats strut their stuff as Rio de Janeiro kicks off its famed carnival parade competition. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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