More than seeing “dance” only as a technique or choreography, I understand this art as a cognitive action that conveys certain patterns of movement-thought, as a text of culture, a way of perceiving and acting in the world based on the body. My understanding of dance is broad: a set that encompasses movement-thought-emotion, voice, affections, relationship with the body, sexuality, everyday gestures, clothing, way of walking and other ways in which culture is expressed through the body.

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The embodied experience of living for eight years in the “most African city outside Africa” (Salvador/ Bahia/ Brazil), the experience of other diasporas such as Cape Verde, Oakland (USA) and also the family roots in Guinea-Bissau and Macau, created a genuine interest in the idiosyncrasies of diasporas, the cross histories resulting from colonization, and the healing work required in these contexts. At the same time, it reinforced the realization that, nowadays, the only possible History - about our countries, colonial relations, who we are and how we can relate to each other from now on - will be a “shared history”, which will depend on mutual efforts and a self-critical approach to each individual as a cultural being.