Maracatu

This morning Julia and I were getting ready to go out and walk around the city when we started to hear music coming from the street outside. When we looked out the window we saw a group of people playing instruments and dancing down the street. When we got downstairs they were right outside the building so we went and joined the celebration. The group of people dancing and playing instruments were performing Maracatu, which is an Afro-Brazilian dance dating back to the time of slavery. The dance originated in Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil and now represents liberty. The performance was very entertaining, there were a lot of people who would hear the music from the street and join in. There were tons of people dancing who weren’t even part of the group so it was a very cool sight. Julia and I joined them until they reached the end of the beach and stopped dancing at which point we went to see the other end of the beach along the way we ate corn on the cob and I burned my lip :-(...