Sunday, January 31, 2010
Momosapiens - Carnaval is Here
I've been wanting to get this video up all week, but we have a hard time uploading so much content over rather small bandwidth. It finally worked today! Did you know that Uruguay has the longest Carnaval in the world? It runs a full forty days here, as long as Lent. Anyway... to get on to what this is.
Last Sunday, we went to the Marine House to watch a Carnaval group. We were told it was a group of performers who would be competing for the top in one of the categories. The picture was of the typical Rio de Janeiro thing - dancing girls with huge headdresses wearing barely anything. What we got were the Momosapiens, a parodista group that's all male and fantastic. Imagine, if you will two dozen plus men with regular day jobs who dance and sing as a sideline. Then imagine them dancing at a concrete poolside that they've never danced on before - with a fence six to seven feet from the pool. That's what you see here.
Parodistas are one of five categories of performers who compete in Uruguay. They have a huge following, and are groups that do three things - dance, sing, and pantomine. All of it is supposed to be a comment on modern life.
I hope you like watching these guys as much as I did. I'll try to put up a couple more of their videos in the next week. All were from the said party at the pool.
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