“ I did not transform my life: I made a radical return to myself, from the inside out, until my axis became my sole point of support. ”
- TERENAA
Twenty years of crossing—through institutional, cultural, familial, and medical oppressions… but also those arising from the body, from our most intimate, fertile places.
Time and again, faced with this ultimate choice: to incarnate from my essence, or to disappear into my own oblivion.
On a hospital bed, I finally chose to fully dare to embrace who I am.
To honor this body that teaches me every day a lost language—one of immediate, blazing knowledge; of an energy that shakes and realigns without consent, with radical precision.
In a mental, linear world, my presence disturbs, pushes for questioning—silently.
I have tamed solitude and silence as necessary companions, protectors of a frequency still too intense, too clear for a world of façades.
I am perceived as intense; my body does not lie — it feels, powerfully and without restraint.
RECEPTIVE
& CATALYST
Deeply receptive: my body and intuition pick up micro-signals, intentions, and misalignments that others cannot see.
I feel what supports or blocks the organic flow of human expression. At the same time, I act as a catalyst for clarity: my words resonate where energy has stagnated.
I translate these perceptions into clarity and guide each person or project toward their own coherence, so that their work can anchor itself in a reality aligned with its own destiny, as intended by life itself.
So that these works endure.
My vision has been shaped by many years of friction, upheavals, and shifts—concrete marks of this awakening energy within me.
From my inner line, I have witnessed the complexity and demands of uprooted, transposed, and constrained cultures.
I have been a witness to human destinies lived under oppression and domination.
And yet, I have never ceased to witness, at the same time, the impulse striving to break through frames that are too narrow.
I have learned to read and honor my sensations—they reveal the fine line between the visible and the invisible.
They guide me through the chaos of a world that has turned its back on its true nature.
Every collapse, every renunciation, every distance—whether imposed or chosen—has become a transformed, embraced impulse toward my essence.
This experience, forged in fire, now allows me to guide each person to recognize and welcome their own presence—still too often diluted, minimized, or sabotaged by upbringing, systems, and loyalties that oppress and drain.
I offer a framework in which to unfold one’s singularity with precision, humility, slowness, and power, supported unconditionally by life itself.
Three continents
Three continents have been lands of initiation: South America, Europe, and Africa.
Beyond a personal and intimate connection with the African continent, woven since my first journey at age twenty, I spent over fifteen years producing artistic workshops and cultural projects highlighting Afro-Brazilian arts and cultures (Capoeira) as well as those of Burkina Faso, Guinea Conakry, and Senegal, collaborating with renowned European diaspora artists who entrusted me with their vision.
What I sought was to reflect the true essence of the artists, rather than the often stereotypical or fantasized expectations of audiences of all kinds.
These solo productions taught me to transform cultural shock into a fertile space of openness.
The rigor of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira environment, followed by the world of West African arts, became a training ground for leadership like no other.
I learned to hold my inner space, carry a vision without diluting it, manage complex dynamics, direct a team spread across Europe, and face the challenges of solo production.
Self-taught, I developed a passion for design, marketing, the digital world, and visual storytelling—everything that helps illustrate energy flows in a domain too often known only through surface stereotypes.
I relentlessly sought ways to bring my vision to life—a new perspective on dense, intense cultures that many fear to know deeply, so great is the gap with European cultures.
My visceral love for the Djembe and dance carried me beyond appearances, keeping me focused on the clarity of my choice and intention: to honor the universal value of each culture, its artists, and its visionaries, without succumbing to ego battles, money, or North-South illusions.
A fine, delicate line to uphold—one that has shaped my multiple, yet singular, identity.
A Djembe in Guinea - Rehearsal space of Ballet Merveilles de Guinée, Conakry (2025)
After an intense week-end of production Lausanne, Switzerland (2015)
We did it - Lausanne, Switzerland (2015)
Festival Capeira Angola - Angoleiros do Mar - Lausanne - Switzerland (2011)
EMANCIPATION
AN INNER LINE
Over the years, impulses have arisen from the deepest part of my being.
Silent, radical, powerful—they have become pillars when everything wavered.
Unknowingly, I was building a system of resilience, but above all, a structure that would carry and reveal the energy of transformation I have always carried.
Today, these pillars allow me to navigate tensions without dilution, to assert my presence in silence, to stand firm amidst chaos, to recognize the living within surface-level discourse, to see through the noise and dissonance, and to maintain trust when everything pushes toward surrender.
THE BODY —
Even under the invisible pressure of being “culturally correct,” my body did not lie. I listened to it; it showed me the invisible thresholds, the fault lines, and the limits too often crossed. Illness, instead of diminishing me, revealed the spaces of consciousness within us—what remains hidden yet has always been there. I did not plan my transformation—I lived it day by day for many years. It is through this body that I learned to die and be reborn again and again, without tipping into hardness or into vagueness.
THE VOICE —
Even trembling, even isolated, my voice has always continued to express itself. Facing systems that tried to erase me, I never stopped dancing, naming, writing. My voice spoke without shouting, preserving both its gentleness and its strength, asserting itself in clarity.
LET WHAT MUST DIE—
Some identities, loyalties, or certainties could no longer accompany me. Projects, attachments, relationships: I severed and withdrew when it was no longer right, even if it cost me… greatly. Knowing how to let go of what no longer serves your truth is a wisdom both sweet and bitter, yet necessary to preserve the flow.
OUTSIDE THE FRAMES —
In a society that creates boxes for reassurance, I have never fit into prefab roles or imposed identities.
My life impulse has always pushed me to transform, to refuse being frozen into seductive or comfortable postures.
Naturally, I turn toward my own emancipation—physical, psychic, mental, and spiritual.
Anything that restrains or blocks me is immediately perceived, acknowledged, and I forge the path to free myself.
No matter the cost.
This rigor has kept me permeable, unmanipulable, whole, lucid, and radical.
COHERENCE —
Choosing to live one’s truth and commit to one’s own liberation slowly builds within a conscious integrity.
This life thread—once imposed, often resisted, denied—is now the foundation guiding my energy of transformation in my work.
In a world marked by distraction and forgetfulness, my radical stance is both a response and a necessary challenge:
It reminds us of what we have forgotten, refuses to see us lost, and re-centers our power, sovereignty, and truth.
It carries the demand of what endures… and the vertigo of creativity.