I have difficulties to talk,
to express myself through words.
Dancing is the easiest way to show who I am.
My pores are opened.
Even before I started dancing, I knew that I wanted to dance.
I'll take part in the Olympics Opening Ceremony,
I'll be a dancer.
We have been working on it since last year.
(AGNES RODRIGUES BALLERINA) It is very important for us artistically.
This space is very important,
we'll be able to do and to show what we do,
and also because we'll be part
of something so grandiose.
(OPENING CEREMONY REHEARSAL)
(DEBORAH COLKER CHOREOGRAPHER)
I want to ask you, at the end, at the wall, I want everyone to look
and ask what are those girls looking at?
Agnes and Gabi.
I was raised in Curitiba,
but in the suburbs, away from the city centre.
We had a huge back yard, my father used to rear chickens
and my mother also,
so I had to have a responsibility,
we started to work at a young age.
I already worked at a plant, a textile industry,
I took my bike and looked for a school
and found a dance school.
I used wide pants, tennis shoes,
very urban, got in class
and saw the girls with ballet shoes,
pantyhose, leotards, skirts, hair in a bun,
my hair all messed up.
I didn't want to do it.
Then he started, he played the first song
and I knew I wanted to do it.
Then I found jazz.
And it led me to a different path.
Then I started to teach,
and I left the textile plant and the worrying began.
My family didn't know it, never saw it,
didn't know what a dancer was, how was the life of a dancer.
It was too far off,
and then suddenly the youngest says she'll be a dancer.
I got here on November 1st, 2014.
And ever since, people say,
"You're not a Carioca? I don't believe it."
When I arrived in Rio, I immediately felt hot.
I wanted movement, I found movement.
Loads of it. Cars, horns. A lot of horns.
And I felt at home.
She liked Rio during her first stay here,
she loved it.
And she ended up living here.
She is agitated.
(DIANA ROSA BALLERINA) She is very agitated.
Our friendship is very intense,
because we live and work together,
we breathe the same ambience.
Deborah Colker was already huge.
She is a great name in Brazil's dance history.
Someone told me Deborah was my neighbour
and I decided to try.
So I went to the computer and wrote an e-mail
I said I wanted to take classes, to learn,
I wanted to keep working.
We had a nice talk downstairs,
I came to class and she told me
I shouldn't worry, because I was already in.
And it all started.
Don't forget to spin, always spinning.
This is the Deborah Colker Movement Center,
the school she idealized.
This is my second home.
I've almost set up a little room here,
with a mattress,
because it's easier, it's easier
to shower upstairs and lay down,
than going home and coming back.
This is now a part of me.
I take classes and also teach classes.
All my work involving dancing is done in here.
We are arriving at the Maracanã,
first rehearsal,
the show will take place here, everything will happen here.
Now it's time to feel the size of the stage,
the size of the place.
To be part of an event,
of this process,
it's a huge responsibility.
It's a place where we have lockers to keep our things,
as if it were a dressing room.
They are all in the cast.
They are dancers, people from circus,
there are people from parkour.
A lot of people from urban dances.
And those boys don't stop. They spin, jump,
they do it all.
My mom will arrive soon. It's her third time in Rio.
She is very excited, she loves Rio.
I came to Rio to see my daughter
and also to enjoy my vacations.
To visit the Botanical Garden for the first time.
(LUISA RODRIGUES AGNES' MOTHER)
And walk around with her until the Opening Ceremony.
Even not understanding the dancing métier very well,
she knows,
she feels what I've achieved.
And she is happier every time she comes here.
It's good to get off the stage
and see my mom.
There were two phases, I'll divide in two phases:
when she didn't know
that dancing could be a profession,
so there were many uncertainties,
and now she is really following,
and to see her happy
is very satisfying.
I don't know if I'll watch it.
You'll watch it, Mom!
- The world will be watching! - I'll cry the whole time.
I've always watched it on TV, like everyone,
but I don't think I knew what it really meant.
That moment, the Opening Ceremony, is something
I'll tell my friends' grandchildren about.