~~~ João Trinta ~~~~

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I believe in miracles, or divine things . The divine word will come to be. The Age of Aquarius promises to be the age of the love. We are leaving a period of darkness and entering in a period of light. They see the map of Brazil. Its form is of a great heart. We can be radiating pure, positive energies. However this upside-down heart, unbalanced, has the form of great bunda. 
March 3 2001 interview with JB online
Carnaval 2001 - [ Translate this page ]

 Joãosinho Trinta  began 2001 with a new team dedicated to the principles he has applied throughout his storied career of thrilling audiences in the Sambodromo. Trinta change samba schools, lending the bright magic of his star Grand Rio, together they hope to once again meet the challenge of creating new and greater spectacles for the special parade of the samba schools. 

Clement João Jorge Trinta is quick to defend the fundamental ideas of love, peace and beauty. This was the subject of his 2001 enredo for Grand Rio Gentility the prophet who came out of the fire , which recounted  the history of the man who was known as Prophet Gentility, for encouraging peace, love and gentility, through words, poems and attitudes. Gentility  said: ' ' the man of the future will be the gentle man because gentility generates gentility, love, wisdom and beauty '

Grand Rio was judged 6th best in a year where calls for restoring integrity and more truth to a tarnished judging process reached a crescendo. No one was heard more often on the subject than Trinta as the most articulate spokesperson for the art form. He was joined by many others. "The school should have, at the very least, been among the five best ones." said the president of Grand Rio, Helium Oliveira. 

The most visible protest came from the samba school that gave Trinta 7 of his 8 championships, Beija Flor who lost 1999, 2000 and 2001 championships to the victor, by the most minimum margin possible, a half a point. Their President Farid Abraão David turned down calls to not perform in the Parade of Champions saying "We have a contract." 
 " We were certain that Imperatriz would lose points in harmony for parading running. Everybody saw this on the TV, it is not possible that the juries have not perceived"  lamented Carlos Adalberto Rodrigues vice-president of Patrimony. 

In the end Beija Flor added a protest cart to their Parade of Champions presentation which made a wry reference to the supposed superior Allegories which were to follow next. Seeing their influence grow with the election of the new President of LEISA as well as rule changes no doubt had its satisfaction as well.

The only Carnavelesco approaching Joãosinho Trinta 8 victories is Carnavalesca Rosa Magalhães of Imperatriz Leopoldinense who has accumulated 6 Championships including the 3 when Luizinho Drumond the honorary President of Imperatriz was also the 1999 to 2001 President of LEISA the organization in charge of the juries and the parade. 

Grand Rio decided hold their own parade of champions although it was popularly known as a protest parade. The parade may not have been able to afford to roll the magnificent floats but a full bateria and nearly a thousand  dancers came out to let the world know their fighting spirit was alive and well.  Their Quadra at  Rua Almirante Barroso, 05 E 06  in Duque de Caxias is a long 45 minutes from downtown Rio but the locals made sure the crowds were dozens deep. 

Joãosinho Trinta is the most celebrated of Rio de Janeiro's carnavalescos. He  began his career in 1965 with Salgueiro before moving on to Beija-Flor de Nilópolis. In 1993 he engineered the march of Viradouro to its first Championship in their 50th year, with the heralded 1997 enredo
 "Light Darknesses - the Explosion of the Universe".  

While he has produced stage sets for the opera of the Municipal Theater of Rio De Janeiro he prefers the greater freedom of the Carnaval art form and has been at the forefront of the many innovations of Rio Carnival throughout his long career.  "For me, culture can be spectacle. I have worked in the carnival to develop a popular culture. The carnival has a proper language, completely different of cinema, theater....The Rio carnival is a carnival about renewal, protest and the Brazilian reality."

A native of São Luís the capital City of the most northern of the northeastern states, Maranhão, Trinita arrived in Rio in 1951. The coastal City is well know for its festivals and a mix of cultures and climates like no other in Brazil. The wildest festival celebrates the fantastic bull known as the Bumba-meu-boi who expresses the unity of three cultures; the Indian, the White and the Black. This is Grand Rio's 2002 enredo or story theme  Magic Lands of the Maranhão by Grande Rio. " 

Joãosinho Trinta sums up what the Carnaval embodies as 
"a full universe of emotions, beauty, vibration, rhythm. It is a complete universe, where all the classrooms join, where it has a harmony, an integration, a happiness, a very great accomplishment. A samba school does not have an enterprise structure and yet it is the only Brazilian event that has surpassed all the economic crises and improved more each time. This spectacle shows the power of the Brazilian."

Trinta  as a prophet for The Age of Aquarius

Trinta whose last means "30" in Portuguese is widely read and still enjoys a book before bed. The young Trinta discovered the public library of Maranhão at the age of 11 beginning with comics but eventually moving on the Greek classics which combined science and religion.

   Joãosinho Trinta, continues to look forward and demonstrates little interest in retirement as he enters his mid-sixties.  
"The electric Rio with its magnificent schools of samba, Bahia with its blocks and trios, giant Pernambuco with its frevo and its dolls, Maranhão and Ceará with its maracatus, this only comes to enrich our culture, this diversity of customs and cultural wealth." said the Carnavelesco. An early critic of the Sambodromo when it was built in 1985 for not creating the optimal energy dynamics  between performer and audience, today he believes the modifications have worked. Trinta is credited with raising to new levels the celebration of the male and female bodies from all angles as a natural reflection of the Carioca culture. This concern with the evolution of the art form has been instrumental in maintaining Rio Carnaval's place at the center of the Carnaval universe. Moving forward in the 21st century he sees possibilities for new innovation in the use of computers to add theatrical lighting to the 80 minute story parades. Of course, he is very proud of his 2001 first, introducing human flight as a form of movement down the Avenue Marquês de Sapucaí.  

Asked to conclude his 2002 interview with uol's VocêVai! with advice for how to finish a life of leadership he says 
"Life swims, this is why the life does not finish. Life is a circle, that develops in spirals. The life has a way: the espiritualidade."

Joãosinho Trinta and Rocketman Eric Scott from Texas USA celebrate Grand Rio's final act of the 2001 Carnaval season with an extraordinary parade on Kennedy Avenue in Caixas RJ	rocketmaninc.com