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Iris De Brito
Connecting, Leading and Healing through the arts of the african diaspora
ARTIST
cultural producer
Embodiment coach
MISSION
"To cultivate conscious cultural leadership, champion the transformative power of dance and creative thinking in education, while elevating excellence in African diaspora dance forms. Through movement, breath and creative expression, participants are empowered to release limiting patterns, transform their energy print, and reset with confidence, purpose, and self-belief.
I connect with ancestral intelligence and Gaya technology
To unlock the blocks in your body and free your mind
So, it's more than just a regular dance class with me. Be ready to laugh AND do the work.
Are you ready?
NEWS & UPDATES
Following the work of "3 Cores Negras" in 2023 I felt that more research was needed to develop my artistic work around the themes of colorism. The general definition of colorism is as below:
Colorism is a term believed to be first coined in 1982 by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, was defined by her to mean the “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color.”
Considering all of the above I've started this open research with the support of CEA (Centro de Experiementação Artistica e o espaço M8TRIARCH em Lisboa to research further the themes of colorism and start to build an archive of stories with family, friends and willing participants.
FOLLOW the instagram account @colorism.stories
Please get in touch for a chat, I would love to hear your story and I promise that I'll handle it with care and thought.
FOLLOW the open residency, collecting stories on Instagram @colorism.stories
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Teaching Dance in the school
curriculum
Teaching African dance as part of the school curriculum is brilliant. For the truly visionary schools that open that opportunity, I'll keep saying it: "Diversity is the key to creativity and to true sustainable leadership"
.@ Redbridge International School Lisbon
KS1 + KS2 students