All of the samba school parades of Rio carnival 2011

Here's a schedule of ALL the samba schools that are parading in Rio carnival 2011, from Grupo Especial down to Grupo E

https://www.tdsounds.co.uk/rio-carnival/rio-carnival-2011/20011-rio-samba-school-parade-schedule

Themes of the Grupo Especial Samba schools in Rio for Carnival 2011

Here's the themes (Enredos) of each of the 12 samba schools parading in the top group of Rio carnival 2011, on the Sunday and Monday nights of carnaval. The Carnavalesco is the overall designer of the parade. Each school parades with around 4000 costumed participants and 8 large floats. The parade is divided into sections with costumes and floats illustrating aspects of the theme. Each school has its own song (samba enredo) written specially to explore the school's theme.

Yesterday  the order in which the top samba schols of the special group will be parading in Rio carnival 2011 wa announced by LIESA (the league of samba schools of Rio de Janeiro).

The school that was promoted up from Grupo do Acesso A always parades first on Sunday night, the worst spot.  This year this dubious honour falls to Sao Clemente. Uniao da Ilha was already prearranged to be the first to parade on Monday. The other samba school positions were chosen by lottery, at an event held in the Cidade do Samba.

Sunday, March 6th 2011

1 - São Clemente
2 - Imperatriz
3 - Mocidade
4 - Tijuca
5 - Vila Isabel
6 - Mangueira

Monday, March 7th 2011

1 - União da Ilha
2 - Salgueiro
3 - Portela
4 - Grande Rio
5 - Porto da Pedra
6 - Beija-Flor

Unidos da Tijuca - theme for 2011

"This night will lift your soul"

Carnavaleso Paulo Barros of the Rio samba school Unidos da Tijuca  always comes up with obscure enredo titles, but there is some explanation. The theme will look at the fear caused by horror, pense and detective films. It will feature some of the biggest names in Brazilian film production. Tijuca is planning to show the spirit with which Brazilians overcome their fears. They will construct a film in the avenida, and will invite the onlookers to watch it.  "we will show the strength of a people which ..... isn't firghtened to be happy" says Paulo Barros.