When I was a little girl, I was very lively, so my mother had the idea to enroll me in a ballet class to quell my exuberance, which she considered excessive. I was only four years old. The result was exactly the opposite. Music and rhythm were an integral part of my family, a fundamental element, almost therapeutic... but I only understood this much later, especially when I started my battle against breast cancer.

My life, since childhood, has been marked by sounds and steps. A love for dance that I inevitably inherited from my parents, who were always ready to interrupt whatever they were doing to dance together. In the end, my parents gave up in the face of my constant dynamism, understanding that dance was too important for me. They were with me in everything: they followed my training more closely, regularly accompanied me to dance classes and early competitions, encouraged me to do better and better. I increasingly realize that - without them - I would not have reached so many milestones. I can say with conviction that thanks to them I was able to face the most difficult dance of my life, that with breast cancer.

After the breast cancer diagnosis, my life underwent a real revolution. My dance school, which is located inside the park of the house where I live with my husband Tino, always by my side for over thirty years, has seen the birth of all the new ideas that I have implemented to fight, step by step, the cancer. A battle that I decided to fight every day with the help of a working group engaged on various fronts.

From Sensual Dance Fit - a project for women only where dance, physical activity, motivation and sharing coexist - to the latest charitable initiative, Dance For Oncology. My school in the park at home is a workshop of ideas, a dance floor where technique lessons and, at the same time, life lessons are given every day. Here, many dancers from all over the world follow my lessons with the dream of becoming champions.

I have undergone invasive surgeries and follow constant treatments for several years, when my oncological journey began, I had serious movement difficulties. But I never wanted to give up. Somehow, my dance training helped me face this difficult test. Dance has taken on, for me, a second guise, that of a combat weapon. The Sensual Dance Fit method was born, initially, for myself. A challenge. I wanted to find a solution using what I know well. I was certain that, through dance, I would be able to return to living my life. A chair, a mirror and many ideas. In a few years, Sensual Dance Fit has taken root throughout Italy and abroad with hundreds of schools and teachers constantly trained, thousands of students, women of all ages. A path of sisterhood and self-help where you can learn to use all those resources that every woman has, even if she is unaware of them. A way to rediscover oneself, love oneself and have an exchange with other "sisters."

Among the ideas that became reality within my dance school, I completed a unique charitable project in the world. Reflecting on the power of music and dance, I conceived a new project to support all those cancer patients who fight my same battle every day. It is called Dance for Oncology and it is the association that aims to help cancer patients - both women and men - through dance lessons, move the body in a programmed way and regain self-esteem.

The gratuity of the courses is a fundamental element; many teachers from all over Italy have believed in the project and generously offered their lessons, as well as many doctors and important national structures that have welcomed the proposal to actively collaborate in support of the association.