Safia Tânia Baumann

• Ballerina, dance teacher and director of Porto Alegre Companhia de Dança, based in Brazil.
• Graduated in classical ballet with improvement for two years at the State Classical Ballet School in Kiev, Ukraine, former Soviet Union.
• Performance in the National Ballet of Cuba and Ballet de Camaguey for two years.
• Studied modern dance and somatic edication methods in New York at the Trisha Brown Company and Movement Research.
• Meditation practitioner and facilitator in retreats, in Brazil and abroad.
• Creator of Biostretch, a system that integrates somatic education and dance techniques.