Testimony, Rita Vilhena

Dançar com o Coração is a journey made up of many small journeys.

On this journey, we start from ourselves and arrive at ourselves. Music, movement, technique, group, and teachers are sometimes instruments, challenges, and obstacles.

We follow paths that are our history, memories, dreams, and pain. We travel paths that are where we are here and now—always accompanied by affectionate looks and available smiles that project with us to the place we want to go.

We feel joy, pleasure, sadness, affection, anger, and fear in turn or simultaneously. Whatever we feel in each moment is felt intensely and with the whole body. We feel it in our hearts, thoughts, eyes, cells, and movements.

We dance. In every movement, in every vibration, in every pause,

Without masks, filters, or excuses, we are just who we are. We are what we feel, and we are whole.

At the end of this journey, which is many journeys in one, we arrive at the place we started from ourselves. And we realise that what we are is no longer what we were. Dancing has the power to open up infinite possibilities in us and transform us, inspiring us to embrace change and growth.