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The Brazilian Bolshoi

posted on August 6, 2013

When people think of Brazil and dancing, images of samba and forró come to mind. But what about something more classical, like ballet? In the city of Joinville, in northern Santa Catarina, one can find the only foreign dance school to carry the name Bolshoi (meaning “large” or “grand” in Russian). It was born from the famous Bolshoi Theater, Ballet and Ballet Academy in Moscow and has been in operation in Brazil since the year 2000.

Every year since then, in the month of October, many young Brazilians try out for a spot at the school and around 300 are selected for the program. Roughly two-hundred of them will come from lower-income families and will receive everything they need (tuition, room & board, and health benefits) for free. According to the official site, “the School is more than just an institution offering a dance education of the highest standard it is also a project of social orientation aimed at taking children and adolescents out of the vicious circle of underprivileged regions.”

In their almost-fourteen years of existence, a whopping 71% of all graduates go on to be hired by some of the largest ballet companies in the world. Check out a news report (in Portuguese) from 2010 celebrating their 10 year anniversary.

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About Adam Lee

Adam is a writer and a researcher who has studied Brazilian culture for over a decade and created several Brazil-themed blogs going back to 2008. Having taught himself Portuguese, he put it to practical use by spending three years doing Brazil on a budget (and living in favelas), from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon.

He now resides in Lisbon, Portugal, developing a startup and dreaming about having a beachside B&B in the Northeast of Brazil.

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