About Rosaria

My name is Rosaria Gracia and I am an award winning dance artist, choreographer, movement director and university lecturer. I am also a keen researcher.

I love performing, devising shows, creating choreographies and directing movement for theatre productions. Other areas of interest and expertise are the application of dance and movement in health conditions such as dementia, Parkinson’s, mild to moderate mental health conditions, fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and ME.

I am very interested in exploring how movement can support our bodies and minds to feel, nurture, rejuvenate and perform well, independently of our age, condition or ability, working with what we have and blossoming with it.

As a dancer I have been dancing since I was very little, initially through Flamenco and Danza Española, and then Ballet. Later on, by the hand of my Political Scientist and Sociologist training, and my curiosity and interest in the use of the arts as catalyst in community participation, I felt in love with Afro-Brazilian dance.

My real passion is in community dance and the power that dance can have in unifying communities. I believe that dance is not only an aesthetically pleasing art, or a tool to improve health and wellbeing, but also as an agent to enhance an individual’s ability to be involved as a citizen, and blossom in the space they live in.

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