If anybody asks me what do I do or who I am, my first response is: “I am a dancer”. I began studying ballet in my childhood. This is the only work I have ever done. It is my passion, my love, my life and also what I know and do best.
I danced on important stages in Europe and around the world. Fifthteen years ago I started teaching. First I was teaching only ballet and modern dance. Later on I took a master degree in dance therapy and started to teach creative movement and dance therapy to a special population such as children with down syndrome, blind children, and female cancer survivors. One day, when I was still living in Italy, I was asked to teach to a group of women in the prison of Florence. There I met a child who was born in prison and still leaving in with his mother. This meeting redirected my path in teaching. The little boy was already three years old but he had never done a forward roll in is life. He had been living since birth in a world where the halls don’t have corners, the windows don’t have horizons, gardens don’t have green . And “inside” was all he knew. His lack of motor skills was disturbing and alarming. I decided to start to learn more about children and the way they learn. |