Comissão de Frente: The Divine Invocation

Led by Jorge Teixeira and Saulo Finelon, the Comissão de Frente opened the parade with a ritual of presence. Their costumes evoked the orixás and priests of Candomblé, each figure carrying the weight of tradition.

The choreography unfolded as invocation. Hands lifted in prayer. Bodies swaying like sacred dancers in a terreiro. Movements were precise, deliberate, calling on the spirits to walk with Beija-Flor.

Among them appeared Oxalá, creator and source. Iemanjá, goddess of the sea. Xangô, lord of thunder and justice. Each was embodied with grace, giving form to the spiritual forces that shaped Laíla’s life and legacy.

n 2025, Beija-Flor’s Comissão de Frente entered as invocation.
The first movements were not spectacle, they were prayer.

Dancers appeared as orixás, as priests of Candomblé.
Oxalá, the creator. Iemanjá, the sea. Xangô, thunder and justice.
Each presence carried weight, each gesture called on memory.

Directed by Jorge Teixeira and Saulo Finelon, the choreography honored Laíla.
It asked the spirits to walk beside Beija-Flor.
It marked the avenue as sacred ground, where legacy and devotion would unfold.

Jorge Teixeira and Saulo Finelon stand at the threshold, makers of movement before the crowd. In 2023 they took the baton of Comissão de Frente, shaping ritual and spectacle.

Saulo, the solo dancer of the Municipal, brings precision to flesh and stance. Jorge weaves narrative in form and flow. Together they compose the beginning of the parade, where myth, color, and devotion meet.

Under their direction, the front commission does not simply open Beija-Flor’s journey. It summons it. Each gesture, each costume, becomes invocation. In 2025, they asked the spirits of orixás to walk with the school, to honor Laíla, to bless history in motion.