Inspiration: Brazilian ballet group overcomes hunger, mourning, and COVID-19 to return to the stage from dancer russian instagram Watch Video
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Description: Tears, enthusiasm, anxiety, and the desire to assert the dance as resistance art. That is how the Ballet Manguinhos' administrative director, Carine Lopes, described the group's return to the stage. The urban ballet company, which teaches 250 children and teenagers from the Manguinhos “favelas” complex in Rio de Janeiro, presented its annual show on November 15th, after months away due to COVID-19 restrictions.nn“Woman: Power and Resistance” narrated through choreography the story of ten