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Sambanovo
has been providing
the best in live
Brazilian and Caribbean
music
and dance entertainment
for the past 17
years. Our
Samba
Bands
and Samba
dancers
bring the color
and magic of Brazil
alive, right to
your next event!!
Our Caribbean
bands,
Steel drum bands,
and Calypso bands
will soothe you
and your guests
with the tropical
sounds from the
islands! We can
do it all for you
because we specialize
in live
entertainment
worldwide!
Why
not
thrill and delight
your guests with
the live
Sambanovo
floorshow,
which features outstanding
Samba
Drummers,
beautiful Brazilian
dancers and
our amazing Capoeira performers!
We simply provide
the very
best live
Brazilian Samba
bands that
exists this side
of Rio de Janeiro!
CAPOEIRA
- A style of martial
arts developed by
Brazilian slaves
in the 1700s. Capoeira
was developed surreptitiously,
with practitioners
pretending that
they were taking
part in dances,
when in fact they
were practicing
their kicks and
blows. Thus, there
is also a whole
style of capoeira
music which goes
along with the martial
arts culture.
BERIMBAU - consist
of a wooden stick
which is strung
with a steel string
to form the bow
shape, a gourd with
an opening on one
side which acts
as a resonator,
a coin or stone,
a thin bamboo stick,
and a basket shaker
called caxixi. Traditionally
in Capoeira (the
Brazilian martial
arts style) the
berimbau rhythms
are accompanied
by the following
percussion instruments;
pandeiro (a tambourine
with a head and
flat jingles), agogo
(two iron bells),
reco reco (a bamboo
scrapper) and atabaque
(tall barrell style
hand drum).
All these instruments
give the Capoeira
a very distinctive
and unique sound. During the jogo
de Capoeira (game
of Capoeira) various
traditional, folkloric
and improvised songs
are sung accompanied
by clapping.
MACULELE
- is a stick dance,
also known as jogo
de bastoes. Sticks
about 12 inches
in length symbolize
the machetes of
sugar cane workers
during Brazil's
colonial era. It
features an attacker
and an opponent,
executing a variety
of attack and defense
maneuvers. These
include crossing
sticks overhead,
or in front of the
body as blocking
strategies.
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