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Welcome to the Documentary In the Studio from the BBC World Service.
I'm Tom Rain, and for the next three weeks, I'll be following the preparations of one of São Paulo's top samba schools,
Águia de Ouro, as they gear up to compete for their most important event of the year:
parading in the iconic São Paulo Sambadrome in the attendance of thousands of people,
and millions more watching on TV across Brazil.
They'll be competing against 13 of the samba schools in the Grupo Especial,
the premier division of samba schools in the city of São Paulo.
The schools will be judged on everything from their percussion, composition