{"id":1896,"date":"2011-01-03T08:10:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T08:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2011-01-03T23:55:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T23:55:14","slug":"samba-de-gafieira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/samba-de-gafieira\/","title":{"rendered":"Samba de Gafieira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh <em>Janeiro<\/em>! Time for resolutions, losing weight, quitting smoking and eating well!<\/p>\n<p>Well, since I don&#8217;t smoke and I&#8217;m quite thin and tend to keep healthy, I like to give myself fun resolutions. \u00a0This year, I want to learn to dance <em>samba de\u00a0gafieira, <\/em>also called simply <em>gafieira<\/em> or <em>gafiera.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A lot of people, when they think of samba, they think of the samba schools they see during <em>Carnaval <\/em>in Rio, but that&#8217;s just one style of samba, <em>samba enredo. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Samba de gafieira<\/em>, sometimes confused with ballroom samba, is a Brazilian dance style that&#8217;s danced in pairs to a <em>samba de roda, chorinho, <\/em>or <em>samba <\/em>beat and like most Latin American dances, the male leads, making my life a <em>littleee <\/em>easier when it comes to learning! In traditional performances, you&#8217;ll see the men wearing white dress pants and a hat and the women wearing knee length dresses that have a lot of movement mimicking mid twentieth century urban Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two videos on <em>Samba de Gafieira<\/em>, the first is a class for you to start learning some moves, and the second a performance for inspiration!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dan\u00e7a de Sal\u00e3o - Samba de Gafieira - aula\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A9UP6Bl42QI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Samba de Gafieira\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQR9iUqdBwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Would you want to learn <em>gafieira<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh Janeiro! 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