All The Way Up

Yesterday we chatted a bit with Serena Vinci (in the picture at centre), virtuoso dancer of Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna” who, on Sunday, May 15, 2016, was awarded by the organizers of the 18th International Dance Festival “Vetrina Scuole di Danza AICS” at the Teatro Verdi in Florence with the medal “A Passion Beyond The Senses” for the ability with which she performed in overcoming deafness through dance. We asked her what was her secret. She said that even without hearing any sounds, she is able (she learned) to feel the waves of music moving through her. She feels the vibrations through her feet all the way to her heart. Then the constant movement repeating and refining throughout each dance class together with her teammates and friends Arianna Settembrini (in the picture on the left), Letizia Rogai (right), and Chiara Ciocia Vida create the “miracle” of a group dance choreography. I asked her how she could understand her teacher when she was talking. “I read her lips”, she said. And what when you cannot see her in front of you? “I ask my teammates to tell me what she said”. Serena made it look easy, but it was not easy. Serena’s family, she herself, her dance teacher Alessandra, her dance teammates made it on their own way, without following any “scientifical method” except the method that works for any dancer.