As an active mover the question that has always remained importantly close to me lays in relation between movement and healing, and how movement , dance and performance can serve me into accessing other states of consciousness - I like to think it through forms of activating, altering, or shifting awareness. 

 

 

 

 

Since early age I notice that I want to become aware of how I move better, how I understand movement in relation to space-time. I was always fascinated with learning movement patterns and executing them with control. As kid it's so fun to climb a tree and jump in the river, feel the adrenaline running our vessels.   

 

My body was always eager to be challenged, to compete as well. When I manage to move well in terms of becoming aware and in control it could transfer me to different states and I recognized an intelligence in that. 

                IT SEEMS LIKE ACTIVATING MY PHYSICALITY AWAKES MY SPIRIT.

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Being an active mover helped me to break through limitations, overcome social barriers at school,,expand my experience of self beyond my own body. Like if I'm something else. Later I discovered it in dance.

I believe I'm speaking about the aliveness we all feel at certain moments. I start noticing that through movement, it changes the way I organize thinking.

                        

Through physicality i felt i could experience my totality, and on the other side it worked as well as a way to overcome personal struggles I had as a Brazilian boy who spend most of the time on the streets because single mom must work. It offered me the opportunity to become independent.

 

               THEN FROM THE AGE OF TEN I STARTED TRAINING IN A DANCE SCHOOL.

 

But only when I got in touch with 'FREE OF STYLES' dance and discovered improvisation, my heart went wide open and i realized that anything could be dance. That my breath is dance, the trees are dancing, what isn't dance? From this point on my mind was blown way and my universe shifted. I was suddenly dancing on the streets, in the markets, at home and i believed that that was when my feeling of 'Self' expanded and i become really in love with movement and also the expression of ideas in choreography. 

 

             MY SOCIAL CONDITIONS WERE NOT ABLE TO LIMIT ME ANYMORE. I FELT HOPE.

 

In 2007 i entered a professional dance company and by being exposed to a director, more experienced dancers, tours around Brazil, I came to realize that this is what i wanted to do for the rest of my life. This thought arrived from pure passion for this art and not yet from a vision of building a carrier as a dancer. Yet money was coming as I was expressing myself and meeting new cultures. I felt aligned.

 

When not in the studios and creating artistic work i also continue to be the freestyle dancer who honors the movement culture and the social impact it has. I remain fascinated with the movement as an art form exclusively from being performed. Sometimes i just must get physical because there's something that my body does so my mind can grasp and somehow it’s how it finds alignment with heart.

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      THAT'S THE ONLY WAY I CAN HEAL AND I CAN CREATE PERFORMANCES AS WELL.

 

That's one of the perspectives I take to be powerfully healing and I try to pass it on in my teachings as well.  

                                                                                                                     

                                                                                                                         - Diego Oliveira