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Tangoterapia, un abrazo de vida. | Brandy Ruvalcaba | TEDxCuauhtémoc


tiff say to me the dance has given me

everything sounds as if I was born with

all the ingredients ready to

dancing would have given me the recipe and the

path would have magically opened

It was not like that and the dance has

given everything but I have given my life

so we were converting little to

little more strength than you want to

part of her in the best friends

lovers and life partners for the

Nazi universe destined not to walk achieve

become a professional dancer and

also helps patients with Parkinson’s disease

dance

This is my story when I was born

I was born with many physical problems in

my legs and feet career

three quarters of the head of the

Femur did not exist on my knees

was what is known as balbás or

affectionate

my foot was not only flat but

it did not have a longitudinal arch or arch

medial

besides that I fasten fascia lata that

is the one that helps hold up no

it worked

I was destined to be in a chair

of wheels no later than five

years of age if my condition does not

improved before two years of age

I already spoke

Imagine my poor family and I will

I said I want to be a dancer when you were

child, it never occurs to you to think that for

dance

You need to be able to walk after two months

old

my mom took me to an orthopaedist and

traumatologist I did exercises that

will help strengthen my legs

use devices that will support and

opening the hip and some hoses that

run from the waist to the feet

that children use with polio to

hold on

while all this chaos happened in my

life I kept saying to myself I want

be a dancer one day the doctor told him

to my mom

sra bring ballet lessons to her daughter

to see if that helps improve their

Piernitas was born in Guadalajara in a

very conservative and catholic family

so I asked my mom that

please take me to the temple to give thanks

because at last my dream would be reality

I considered that the happiest day of

my life because I said finally I will be

dancer clear what I do not expect what

what would come next

once entering the academies

ballet professionals my teachers do not

They were aware of all my problems

nor physical limitations

so you always told me you do not

you serve to dance your legs are

very wide you do not have strength in the feet

to stand at the tips you have where

go

that is, people normally

we walk with our feet facing the front

in parallel the fences are like this

open like ducks and I was almost

completely rotated inward that you

Say that at 78 years old and I’ll tell you

continue saying for many years

more for a girl is something very very

I knew about my ballet classes

and mom was asking me how was it

My daughter and I said very well mommy but

actually I was going to my bedroom

shut myself up to cry but I could not

tell the truth to my mom because

then I was going to get out of the ballet and I

I wanted to be a dancer

however all this faith and strength that

my family instilled me has always been

I presented

so I thought and I have two

arms I have two legs because they tell me

I can not dance

I repeat when you are a child you never know

it happens to think that to dance you need

be able to walk when you innocent month

objective is praiseworthy you have an idea

you start to imagine it to build it and

you see yourself

every day and every night

dancing beautifully as the best

the ballet flour of the world then to

despite my young age

I made the firm decision that I and

appreciate that it did not matter how long

it will not take or have to work

very much more than my companions

I would always kick it and I would achieve my

objectives

so I do not agree to attend

a daily class but I got into

more ballet classes from other levels

to work triple or quadruple

That the others

finally he managed to record me with honors

not only as a professional dancer but

also as a teacher in beautiful art

of dance comes a watershed to me

life I moved to mexico df

I will continue with my dream and continue

looking for more things than from me

perspective have to do with dance

Some years ago I detected my

mom parkinson’s disease

my sister calls me to give me the

news and when I come from family so

Conservative as expected

go back to guadalajara

come and take care of your mom and even though it’s going to sound

well selfish I did not want to go back

it had cost me so much effort

I had overcome so many obstacles but

On the other hand my mom has given me

all

without her I would not be what I am

so I thought by law to give more mica

simple that exists if I help people

with parkinson

here in the city of mexico to someone

in guadalajara to help my mom

so based on all my

knowledge of dance anatomy

illusionism the movement of

dolphins the ideology of other cultures

through language learning

foreigners create a method of

Special therapy for patients

share his I have it treats as such already

existed for a long time in several

countries but the special tangotherapy

for patients with parkinson not

what I created is based on my

life experience is nothing more

do the steps of tango and if for

someone who is good and healthy to dance

tango is already a challenge because you have to

coordinate the movements of your body

with music keep the posture of and

upright control your balance

empathize with the couple you ‘re

Dancing is very easy for men

for example feeling ridiculous when

they do not dance well they need someone who

help them to cross precipice that they

convey the confidence that they can

do what the secreillos of

the first steps is tangotherapy is

a self-created creation supported motivated

created and substantiated by two things

all my experience and life testimony

and the motivation to understand my mom

it’s not a conventional method it’s not a

copy so it’s totally unique in

their gender and in their motivation

creation in it the patients of

parkinson learn exercises

propaedeutics before giving the first

step with my method are mentally strengthened

emotionally and physically through

history of tango are recognized to them

of the tragedy in which they live and

the greatness to which they can aspire

they do extra drawing exercises

calligraphy exercises of different

with my method have been given

that can help overcome

complications why because if he

it is very difficult to dance for the

people who do not have Parkinson’s imagine

for those who do where they have to dance

together the one that is shaking with the one

It is very rigid that is very

weak with which it does not stop swinging

unwittingly

my method helps them create a

connection and harmony to overcome these

discomforts and do not only that dance

but enjoy it and transmit that

feeling because finally the dance

it’s for that

dance is to say with the body what

who had kaka there

my method teaches again

feel gotten excited to live

with a new challenge that they did not have before

of parkinson’s and now they’re doing it

they are dancing tango and all the magic

That this entails

I do not have Parkinson’s but incarnate

own what it feels like your body

betray that it is at the same time your

best friend and your worst enemy who does not

You can control your movements and

there is a continuous social rejection and

work for not being able to control your body

after it was present method believe

to the Mexican parkinson association

in the first class that I gave them

I told my case and I told them you are going to

Tango dance saw me with a face

You are crazy I told them if I’m crazy

but grab me case and they will achieve it and

those who paid attention to me began

with me and have followed my methodology

they are doing unimaginable things

the fact of doing something so

difficult as it is to dance tango

It requires what takes away the parkinson

balance psychomotor coordination

strength is for them a sensation

indescribable because beyond its

disease that they did not choose and had

the fault but they have realized that my

method helps us move forward that

It is not the end of a world full of

possibilities is opening the doors

towards the universe of greatness towards the

universe of dance and because the tango

because tango is more than a dance a

spell a spell goes beyond the

technique goes beyond the steps is

create a communion with the couple that

you are dancing at that moment and being

Parkinson’s disease is so cruel

that creates so much insulation

the fact of meeting another being

human who is going through the same thing

you who hold hands make a

embrace of tango and dance to the rhythm of

bandoneón you do not feel that you are

embracing another person is only

embracing tango is sheltering with

your dance comforting you of misery in

the one you find yourself in a few words

is embracing life again to me

the dance has given me the best life that I

I can give

so if I a girl destined to

everything except to dance I succeeded and I follow

doing demonstrating day to day that

life consists of determination and

strength that you have to overcome each

obstacle that presents itself to you

dance

first you dance with your soul and then with

the feet

first with the feeling and then with

the steps because to dance

you do not need to be able to walk

it needs to be done many

Thank you

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