Vestidos para brilhar: uma análise da trajetória dos destaques das escolas de samba do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This work seeks to analyze the trajectory of destaques in samba schools, their fixation in the popular imaginary and the importance into these organizations, from three characters: Olegária dos Anjos, in Império Serrano, considered the first destaque of samba schools history; Isabel Valença, in Salgueiro, who gave life to brazilian historical characters marked in carnival through themes presented in this samba school; and Jésus Henrique, in Salgueiro, and posteriorly in Beija-Flor de Nilópolis, who became a symbol of a group of participants who transited with theirs luxurious costumes between the carnival costumes contests and the avenues where occur the parades. In first chapter we talk about the building of narratives of primary positions in the world of carnival. In the second chapter we introduce a brief discussion about the place of lux shown for the destaques in sumptuous costumes. In the third chapter we draw a parallel with the representation of sacred through an observation of visuality based on verticality and in the elevation of the destaques to some kinds of altars in motion, in other words, the floats