(15 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 11 April 2024
1. Various of dancers from passinho group Oz Cria recording a video of them performing in Rocinha favela to post on internet
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Duque de Caxias, Brazil – 06 May 2024
2. Dancers from the group Passinho Carioca performing at a cultural complex to kids from Duque de Caxias municipal schools
3. Dancer Nayara Costa da Silva performing
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Nayara Costa da Silva, 23 year-old Passinho Carioca dancer and director: ++IMAGES ON SOUNDBITE++
“I’m a young woman who was saved through funk, through “passinho.” I come from a family where everyone has been involved in drug trafficking, which is our reality in the favelas, unfortunately. But I believe that just as I changed my life, everyone can change too.”
5. Various of dancers performing on the stage
6. Thiago de Paula, 35 year-old, Director of Passinho Carioca: ++IMAGES OVER SOUNDBITE++
“For me, to have decreed passinho as a cultural and immaterial heritage of Rio de Janeiro brings a very significant value to these people, because it will certainly change the lives of many people, it will be seen as a law and not just as a cultural movement.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 17 April 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
7. Various of passinho dancers from the group Oz Cria performing in the street of Rocinha favela
STORYLINE:
It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music.
Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo — whatever was around.
The passinho, a dance style created in the 2000s by kids in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, in March was declared an “intangible cultural heritage” by legislators in the state of Rio, bringing recognition to a cultural expression born in the sprawling working-class neighborhoods.
The creators of passinho are young kids with plenty of flexibility — and no joint problems.
They started trying out new moves at home and then showing them off at funk parties in their communities and, crucially, sharing them on the internet.
The style started spreading to other favelas and became a means for youths to move seamlessly between communities controlled by rival drug gangs.
It offered young men from favelas a new way out, besides falling into a life of crime or the all-too-common pipe dream of becoming a soccer star, like Nayara Costa da Silva, a dancer and director from the group Passinho Carioca in the Penha complex of favelas.
“I’m a young woman who was saved through funk, through “passinho,” said da Silva, after her presentation for kids from Rio de Janeiro municipal schools.
"I come from a family where everyone has been involved in drug trafficking, which is our reality in the favelas, unfortunately," she added.
Passinho was declared state heritage by Rio’s legislative assembly through a law proposed by Rio state legislator Veronica Lima.
AP video by Lucas Dumphreys and Mario Lobao.
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