Brazilian Zouk Magic - Gui & Kelsey - On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter

The sound of violins often makes me feel very strongly. Sometimes I cry, others my heart starts racing and others I have goosebumps. Sometimes I have all those things together, but most of the times, I just travel far inside to a place where I find peace. The first time I heard On the Nature of Daylight was in 2016 when the movie Arrivals came out. Since then, this song became not only my go-to in moments where I needed to reflect and let stuff out but also became my dance challenge. Few times I tried, but I didn’t feel that I was doing justice to the song or that I had the tools to capture in movement the beauty of those sounds. I tried with all the dances I know, but it was not feeling right. Somewhat unconsciously I set as my goals the things that I needed to dance to this song and it is funny now to realize how much work I was putting into specific things in my dance just to tackle one challenge, one song. A few days ago, at the Intensive Retreat with Anderson Mendes and Brenda Carvalho, the opportunity