TITLE: Dance of hope

Venezuela on the way to Colombia. There are people who gets there walking and others who decides to go dancing
We know, looking at the news and the media, that the situation in Venezuela is crisis.
However, we also know that those difficult and conflicting situations give us the strength and the will to continue to believe in our dreams and to feel that a better future is possible. The need and the situations that make us suffer help to overcome and go beyond our own limits.
That is what those young Venezuelans have done, arrived in Colombia in order to pursue their dreams and be able to overcome as person and in their lifestyle.
A group of Venezuelan break-dancer at the traffic light outside the wall of the famous touristic city of Cartagena de las India.
For them dancing is something more. It is the hope that it is possible to go ahead in the best way, to be able to improve and reach, one day, great goals.
Their eyes light up when they talk about their dream of traveling and dancing, to bring the Venezuelan flag up in Latin America. They are proud of being Venezuelans and for them dancing is their way of protesting and expression of the political situation.
You see them dancing at traffic lights, but their art is not just dancing on the street.
There is a lifestyle around this: preparing themselves, train and try new steps, confronting other dancers, learning and teaching others, promoting and finding new ways to be creative.

AUTHOR: Nathalie Vigini (Switzerland)

Nathalie Vigini, born in 1982 in Switzerland, is now almost 10 years I live in Latin America and travel around the world.
First in Brasil and now since 2010 in Costa Rica where I live and work.
My passion for photography started thanks to my passion to travel, to my curiosity to know people and cultures. Photography is now an important part of my life, and I always try to tell story, events and emotion that I can live in person and share with other people.
Since many years, I participate to some workshops around the world, like New York, Barcelona, Vacelcia, Milano and Costa Rica.
In 2014 I did a small local exhibition where I live in Costa Rica about local people for a fundraising project.
From 2015 I did some small publications about some travel magazines in Guatemala, in Costa Rica and Brazil and I’m a freelancer for some of those magazine about travel and cultures.
In 2015 I helped as a volounteer at the Guate Photo – Photo Festival in Guatemala City and the Photo Festival in Costa Rica.
In 2017 I did my first solo expo in San Jose, Costa Rica, in the art galley Galeria Talentum about my photo project MiLindoCaribe.