in spite of this, there are also smaller schools which present some engaging performances for smaller admission prices, and which are helping to make ballet more appealing to the masses.

while the national tradition is still recent, brazil has managed to present the world some well-known ballet artists.

ana botafogo is a dancer born in rio de janeiro in 1957, who started to learn the art in her hometown - it was in france and england where she started to become known. when she returned to her homeland in the 1980s she became an integral part of a worldwide campaign which helped to greatly promote the name of the rio de janeiro's municipal theater and its ballet school.