Brazil’s Orgasmic Samba and Sex Carnival 2009 – Gisele Bundchen & Luma De Oliveira

Dancing beauties wearing little more than sequins and smiles wrapped up two nights of Carnival parades by Brazil’s top samba schools in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil’s Carnival has always been a raucous affair but beauty queen Angela Bismarchi took it a step further when her only item of clothing, a small patch of glitter, fell off mid-parade.

Bismarchi was the talk of the town on the second and final night of Rio de Janeiro’s main Carnival parades, where full nudity is officially banned even though many outfits leave precious little to the imagination.

The young woman, queen of the Porto da Pedra samba school, was briefly left entirely naked but for a few feathers and some body paint when her “tapasexo”, a tiny piece of material topped with glitter, fell away.

But Bismarchi quickly conjured up a thong and carried on dancing, later laughing off the incident with an old Brazilian saying: “A well prepared woman is worth two.”

Last night’s parades featured thousands of spectacularly dressed dancers shaking and singing their way along the city’s Sambadrome to a ferocious rhythm of drums.

“It’s a thrill. I enjoy the people, I enjoy the costumes,” said French movie star Vincent Cassel, on his third Brazilian Carnival, in one of the Sambadrome’s VIP boxes. “The party here is really beautiful.”

Thirteen samba schools from poor neighbourhoods parade over two nights to compete for the title of Carnival champion, and are judged on their floats, music and dancing.

Some of Brazil’s most beautiful women battle it out each year to become their school’s “drum queen” and lead their samba parades.

The role usually goes to young starlets or beautiful women plucked from the downtrodden areas where the samba schools are based.

But two leading samba schools taking part in the final night of the top-tier parades surprised Brazilians by choosing women aged 46 and 44.

One is a former model though, and the other – Luma De Oliveira – was once a Playboy cover girl.

“It’s a huge change,” Luiza Brunet, 46, said as she prepared for her showcase role in the Imperatiz samba school’s parade.

“It shows that women who are more mature are gaining space in a country with so much machismo, where we give more value to youth and beauty.”

Hicla Curvello, a 26-year-old student sunning herself on Ipanema beach, said: “They have incredible bodies – haven’t you seen them?”

She added: “They gorgeously represent the face of Rio’s Carnival and it isn’t important if that face is a little older this year.”

Imperatriz and Oliveira’s Portela entry are among the 12 top samba schools competing over two nights in front of 80,000 spectators at the Sambadrome stadium.

But lost in the extravaganza of colour and lithe limbs is the fact that this year the displays are themed on a more serious note – the environment and green technology.

The floats last night included huge animals and songs honouring African culture, and others devoted to photography and sports.

Porto da Pedra’s theme was the struggle of South Africa’s blacks against apartheid. It included a huge statue of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, sections of people dressed as tigers and a float representing police repression.

In a parade paying tribute to the art of photography, the Unidos da Tijuca samba school brought images of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty and Egypt’s Pyramids.

Floats with giant statues of African warrior queens and Egyptian pharaohs, presented by the Salgueiro samba school, left clouds of glitter in the air as they passed.

This year’s celebrations were held amid a surge in violence in Rio’s slums with dozens killed in police gunfights with drug traffickers and turf battles between rival gangs.

The dead included a leader of the Salgueiro samba troupe, gunned down with his wife in their car as they left the school’s training ground last week.

A government crackdown intensified in the days leading up to Carnival with police occupying some of the city’s slums, knows as favelas.

Banners along the Sambadrome had calls for peace emblazoned on them. Despite the violence, officials say about 700,000 tourists descended on the city for Carnival.

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Painting Nude Samba Dancers Is The Best Job In Brazil

Betto Almeida is the Mr. Lucky of Rio’s Carnival.

The 36-year-old artist awakes at 8 a.m. Has a little breakfast. Survives a commute through the city’s tough traffic. Arrives at the office by 11.

Then he spends hours painting the bodies of gorgeous women — and earning as much as $2,000 a day.

“You wouldn’t believe how many applications I get for an assistant,” Almeida deadpanned, never taking his eyes from his work as he brushed bright orange paint on the stomach of a model in his glass-enclosed studio under the grandstands at the Sambadrome, where Rio’s Carnival parades ended Tuesday at dawn.

“But it’s hard work, man. I take my job seriously.”

Slight, soft-spoken and unassuming, Almeida devotes his art to a sideshow of the samba parades: models who earn about $250 a night to mingle, clad only in paint, with high-rollers in the luxury boxes.

Wearing plaid pants, a green shirt with a red phoenix on it and a denim-and-camouflage hat, Almeida goes about his work with a nonchalant air as the party-crazed hordes outside press their noses to the glass and snap photos.

His day job is art director on television soap operas, but for the past 12 years he has been brushing, dripping and spraying paint on some of the most beautiful bodies Brazil’s Carnival has to display.

Michele Peres, a 28-year-old model wearing tiny black shorts, snakeskin stilettos and a watch, said the quality of Almeida’s work was vital to her professional success.

“I’ve been doing this for nine years, for Carnival and other events,” she said as Almeida painted a jaguar on her breasts. “He is the best body painter I’ve come across and his work draws more attention to me. It is good for him, it is good for me.”

A gentleman tapped on the studio window and, as gingerly as a drunk Carnival reveler could, requested that Peres turn toward the growing crowd. With a barely perceptible sigh, she complied, not hesitating to light up a smile once the cameras started popping.

Luana Minini, a 22-year-old actress, was making her first appearance as a Carnival body paint model and she took a slightly more timid stance: She had Almeida paint critical areas of her body in a back room before agreeing to have a red parrot with green wings covering her chest completed under the public’s gaze.

“I’ve always worked in theater and dance. This is a bit more free- spirited. But I’ve learned to control my nervousness. The paint acts as a cover, it makes me feel protected,” she said, motioning toward the jungle foliage in which the parrot on her breast resided.

Both women said some men — mostly foreigners — get a little frisky in the box seats, where the models mingle for 15 minutes before taking a champagne break for 15 minutes in a glassed-front room next to Almeida’s work space.

“It gets a little rowdy. Not too many men grab us or anything, but there is always one or two who get a little confused,” Minini said. “Brazilians understand the ambiance of Carnival and they come here prepared to see this.”

As the models answered questions, Almeida kept working. On his knees behind Peres, he dipped his brush into one of a dozen plastic water bottles cut in half to hold his paint, carefully painting jaguar spots on the back of the model’s thighs.

Sweat on his brow, he said the hard work is worth it. A modeling agency that employs the women pays him $1,000 for the roughly two hours it takes to paint each model. During the samba parades, he paints two women a night. And in a typical year will paint a minimum of 50 women for various events.

“I started doing it for theater and one of the samba parade officials asked if I would do it for Carnival models. How could I say no?” he asked, diving into a cheeseburger after finishing up with Peres. “A lot of guys are jealous of my job.”

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