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Brazilian folk dance and folk drama
are rick forms of popular artistic expression. Subject, rhythm, costume,
and choreography revealthe three principal components of the nation's
culture in a complex interaction.
There are dozens of Brazilian folk
dances - everything from dramatizations of the early
wars between the Portuguese and the Indians (Caboclinhos and Caiapós performed
inthe states of Pernambuco and Alagoas), to the Cavalhada of Pirenópolis
in the state of Goiás, a theatrical pageant, lasting threedays,
which depicts the fight between the Christians and
the Moors on the Iberian Peninsula. The Cavalhada survives from thetradition
of medieval
tournaments.
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