​In this edition:

• My Hair Is Not for Touching: Body, Image, and Insubordination in Video Dance — Patricia Ressurreição opens the edition with a critical text articulating racism, corporeality, and audiovisual language through videodance as a field of aesthetic and political dispute.

• Reconfigurations of Sound in Diaspora — Percussionist Crá Rosa is the featured living artist in this edition’s music section. His work crosses geographical and sonic borders, repositioning African percussion as thought, not merely rhythm.

• Wolf Crew: When Dance Becomes a Tool for Social Transformation — Sophia Manhaes writes about the breakdance group from Rio de Janeiro that transformed movement into pedagogy, community, and belonging.

• The Heel That Liberates: Body, Technique, and Presence in Stiletto — Stiletto dance and the Diva da Comunidade project show how high heels can become instruments of empowerment for women from the outskirts of São Luís do Maranhão — rather than the opposite.

• The Body the State Tried to Silence: Gafieira and the Persecution of Samba as the Birth Certificate of a Culture — Tathy Zimmermann revisits the history of state repression against samba and gafieira, showing that dancing was, for decades, an act of resistance involving real risk.

• Interview: Rafaella Pasini Abudi — The researcher and artist presents dance as an expanded field: not merely bodily expression, but a place of thought, listening, and meaning-making.

• Arab Dance: Culture, Body, and Expression — Kátia Velo, artist and curator, writes about Arab dance as a living cultural heritage, often misunderstood and reduced to exoticism through the Western gaze.

• You Will Fall in Love with Your Pointe Shoes — Keren Montrezoro, from ArteDança and a fitting specialist, writes about the intimate relationship between the body and its instrument — and what changes when that relationship is treated with technique and care.

This edition does not close the debate on dance — it opens it inside out. By bringing together breakdance and ballet, gafieira and stiletto, diasporic percussion and videodance, Arte Cítrica affirms that there is no hierarchy among the ways of moving the body. There is, however, a question running through every text: who has the right to dance?

The answer is here — and it moves.