Everybody can dance.

 

Dançar com o Coração® is both a therapeutic and a dance teaching-learning method, integrating the psychotherapeutic model of Bioenergetic Analysis and Contemporary Dance.

BODIES IN (E)MOTION THERAPY®

Regular Sessions

Workshops

Creative Workshops

For children

Who we are

Dançar com o Coração® is a method created in 2015 by Ana Beatriz Degues, a contemporary dancer, and Maria Goretti Coelho, a body psychotherapist, both living in Lisbon, Portugal.

KNOW MORE

A body free from blockages can move gracefully and follow its own rhythm.

  • “Drafting my testimony for Dançar com o Coração, I feel like a child running out to sea towards the next wave, trying to catch with my hands this great pulse of life that runs through my fingers.”

    — Maria Abreu

  • “Dançar com o Coração is the place where I can best restore my vital energy and when this happens (most times), I feel blessed ... I feel privileged to be part of this project which fills my soul with good things...”

    — Ana Santos

  • “To me, as a musician, Dançar com o Coração is touching with the heart. I play with the emotions that I feel and that I feel others feeling. I play touching them in their intimacy, whispering emotions that mould the dance. I hear their hearts touching mine and I write sounds in the palette of my forgotten memories materialized in bodies sculpted by movement.”

    — Mário Teixeira

  • “Dançar com o Coração is, for me, a doorway to feel and to become familiar with my physical, sensory, and emotional body at a deeper level; a space where I can (re)learn how to take better care of myself; a link between body and mind, between the heart and the brain.”

    — Pedro Fonseca

  • “Dançar com o Coração is a magical cauldron where every week, emotions are danced and lives are transformed.”

    — Patrícia Churro

  • “… So here I become reconciled and undo the knots that encumber me. I feel whole and I gain wings that lead me to tread new paths."

    — Cristina Gentil

  • “It is a process of pure transformation, in which the movement of our body (…) is the purest essence of ourselves.”

    — Maria Inês de Brito

  • “We tread paths that are our history, our memories, our dreams, our pains. We tread paths which are the place where we are, here and now. Accompanied, always, by loving glances and smiles available that, together with us, are projected onto the place where we want to arrive.”

    — Maria Rita Vilhena

  • “Being part of this dance with the heart made me open my eyes, my body, and my heart to the world. It is a sacred place of shelter, tenderness, sincerity, sharing, and discovery, in which each day new paths are explored”.

    — Patrícia Pereira

  • “It's a space for sharing, a look inside that makes looking outside, the connection to the other, richer.”

    — Mariana Catalão

  • “Would you believe that in me, now 66 years old, dances all the joy and strength of life, as if I had just been born. Yes, miracles happen!"

    — Ana Agapito