Our cultural visit has the aim of allowing our students to have access to local museums, theaters, science centers, exhibitions and libraries. We call it cultural experiences - and not just school tours - because they are extremely important due to financial and racial issues that would not approve these students to be included in places such as these.

In this way, Ballet Maguinhos provides these cultural visits to our students. As a way of developing critical awareness, we register their expectations before the visits and the impressions after it. By confronting these two different perspectives, it is possible to measure the impact of these activities in the life of these children and in their cultural formation inside the socio-historical context they live in.

The BM seeks, whenever it is possible, to participate of other events that are not directly linked to our project. Therefore, we attend to  the many invitations for events and for especial participations in dance competitions  It also provides internal and external Jazz workshops, contemporary dance and other modalities. In addition to theater classes and improvisation games. Along with this, Ballet Manguinhos counts on a partnership with Clube de Regatas do Flamengo by indicating of our dancers to participate in the selection processes for its synchronized swimming team and artistic gymnastics.

BM has also a significant presence in dance festivals. Up to now, we have achieved the first and second place in many national dance festivals, such as Festival Bravos and Festival Mundo Bailarinístico in São Paulo, Festival de Dança da Barra, Festival Tempo de Dançar, Festival Expressão e Art, Mostra de Dança Pequenos Passos and  Festival de Dança Movimento Art Carioca.

The main purpose of “Dancing and Reading” (Dançando e Lendo)  is to unite dance and reading outside the walls of Ballet Manguinhos. The project  enters the homes of our students and also it influences their families. In 2018, we produced the show Dancing & Reading - in which each class represented part of a story from a book. Through this, we managed to increase the range of this particular project in our community. For all of this to be possible, Ballet Manguinhos has a collection of books received through some donations.

Through invitations by the name of Ballet Manguinhos, we have already brought many personalities from the world of dance and, also, people with great social influences in order form them to chat with our students. With these invitations, we expect our dancers to find roles models to be inspired by.

We have had the following personalities: Dan Dan Firmo (Choreographer and Dancer of the famous brazilian singer Iza), Thiana Calmon (Dancer and blogger of @eubailarina), Claudia Motta (First Dancer of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro and the Artistic Sponsor of Ballet Manguinhos), Claudio Dauelsberg (Consecrated Pianist and PH.D. in Music by Unirio -  where he is the professor and the musical director of Pianorquestra).

Working with the other types of dance, besides studying the classical ballet,  is important to us - even though it is the corestone of all these other types of dances. Therefore, we intento to present in our classes, and also through workshops and festivals, the many different paths in which the world of dance can offer.