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Friday, July 1, 2016

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.

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Created Equal

Serena Vinci dancing in the Associazione Culturale ”Il Delta della Luna”’s show of end year at the Teatro SMS of the People’s House in Grassina on Saturday, June 20, 2015. Photo © Stefano Marmino.

As you already know (or maybe not), on Sunday, May 15, 2016, Serena Vinci (Associazione Culturale “Il Delta della Luna”) 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”.
Today we received the following letter from Mrs. Stefania Marinaccio Ballerini, which may be of some interest to our readers, as well as to Miss Serena Vinci:

“Bravo, Serena! Your passion, dedication and constancy will bring you far. I know you since you small, I watched you grow and progress.
Like many other children born with profound deafness, you worked hard and now you’re able to speak like everyone else. You’ve studied and learned with your professors and classmates in public schools. In short, you demonstrated that deafness can be overcome, even though, of course, with a hearing aid and rehabilitation.
So you became a distinguished ballerina...
Congratulations: you did it!
You are an example to a lot of girls and boys.
Finally, I invite you all to visit our website http://www.fiaddatoscana.org/ as well as our Facebook account Fiadda Toscana ONLUS”.