ART BRASIL
Music & Dance to Support Your Health & Happiness
ART BRASIL is a not-for-profit collective of freelance artists working in movement and music.
We aim to improve health and well-being by providing opportunities for all in our community of North Staffordshire to lead a healthy and active physical and social lifestyle.
WHAT WE DO
We provide a range of services for our community including
COMMUNITY
Weekly classes in movement and music for families, adults & older adults including dance, seated dance, yoga and drumming.
WORKSHOPS
Workshop visits bringing music and dance to schools, community groups, older people's groups, dementia support services, events and team building.
PERFORMANCE
Interactive family friendly performance workshop for special occasions, street festival and community events.
OUR HISTORY
ART BRASIL was set up in 2006 in Stoke-on-Trent, North Staffordshire. Initially the group focussed on sharing CAPOEIRA (the Brazilian martial-art-dance and music form) with the community through weekly classes and workshops for schools and events. As the group thrived and the community membership grew, we increased the range of weekly community classes and workshops to include other forms of Brazilian dance, percussion and song forms. This lead us over time to go by simply 'ART BRASIL', as Capoeira was now only one of the art forms we delivered. We delivered classes for children, families and adults, as well as performing with our groups at community events.
In 2016, we launched an additional branch to our community delivery - working with older adults. We found there was a considerable gap in the delivery of community dance and music locally that catered specifically to older adults. We designed a programme of Brazilian music, dance and song workshops that we deliver (still now) as community classes, as well as one off or regular visits to other groups, including friendship groups , supported accommodation complexes and support groups including those for dementia, stroke, injury rehabilitation, cancer and more. This programme has developed further and now includes general popular music and dance activities, as well as specific Brazilian styles.
To date, in 2025, we have a full weekly timetable of music and dance activities, as well as delivering workshop visits to schools, community groups, older adults groups and more. We work with a number of partners to bring music and dance to everyBody in our community.
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Mika
Director, Music & Dance
Amy
Music & Special Needs
Kirsty B
Yoga
Mestre Piolho
Capoeira
WHO WE ARE
Meet our team of freelance artists
Helen
Music & Dance
SUPPORT US
As a not-for-profit organisation we rely on support, donations and fundraising to maintain our community work.
We welcome monetary donations towards our work which can be sent via paypal.me/artbrasil with the reference/note 'donation'
'In kind' support such as volunteers to help us promote courses and projects, or spaces we can access to deliver projects, is also particularly helpful. If you think you can support us in any way please get in touch.
