Sports Life - How dancing builds resilience

Deutsche Welle is Germany's international broadcaster and a trusted source of information, producing TV, radio and internet programming for you in 30 languages - wherever you are in the world.

Tags:

When she was just three, Maïmouna Coulibaly underwent genital mutilation. She’s been sexually abused several times in her life. But she says, “dancing saved my life”. For her, movement is directly connected to emotions. Based on African urban dances, Maïmouna developed a dance class where women literally learn to shake off traumas and reclaim self-love, confidence, and power through dancing.