2023-09-04 08:05:00
Nuris Quinteros for years was a dancer and therapeutic companion. He knows well that when words are not enough, art is the best tool to heal.. The woman ventured for years and took her teachings to people not only in Roca, but also in different parts of the country.
Nuris was born in Córdoba and when she was very young she moved with her mother and grandmother (nona, as she calls it) to Esquel, in the province of Chubut. She there she since she was four years old she began to dance and at 14 when saw the presentation of María Fux (dancer and choreographer) for the first time on a city anniversary, she was surprised: “I want to do that,” she said. Years later, María would be his guide and colleague. She studied and graduated as a dance teacher.
«Working from art one finds the sensitive part of the human being, so that allows you to hug and let yourself be hugged because a common code is generated. We all want to dance, write, play the piano, make music. The need to express oneself is inherent for human beings and not always through words, which is why human contact is so important,” he told DIARIO RÍO NEGRO in an exclusive interview.
In the middle of the talk, the woman recalled that in her adolescence several entrepreneurs set up an art institute, in which she participated. Some time later they had to close it due to the military coup of 1966. “Art always liberates thought and was seen as dangerous for youth,” he said, adding “that’s where one has to continue painting, dancing, singing and that nothing is subdued. You always have to raise your head, with pride and the flag of ideals«.
The dancer explained that a large part of her solidarity work is due to the work of her parents. His father was a treasurer and her mother worked in the social service sector. Both worked at the hospital. There she had a lot of contact with the countrymen and country people who frequented the place. “My parents were very sensitive to that event, they were very generous to receive people in their homes,” he said.
There was a time when Nuris decided to work in the Río Negro justice system in Bariloche. That place gave him the certainty of having a salary, social work and vacations, something that is often not possible with art. At that time he was very young and he tried his luck in Roca where he had more chances to grow in that legal environment.
In that city he managed to have his dance school. She did it first at Club Progreso with the idea of opening the space in a public place, but later she decided to move it to her house, until she managed to rent a room on Chacabuco street which she called “The galpon”. “I fixed it, I put seats and we did various activities such as theater or folklore dancing, which were not common in the area”, indicated. There Nuris grew up as a dancer along with the people who attended her classes.
Go ahead
Pablo was their only son and passed away following fighting a painful illness. In the midst of her sadness, Nuris received the support of her mother who encouraged her to seek a new path and He went to work in San Luis at a mental health hospital for three weeks, but ended up staying 20 years.
in that province He decided to study the career of therapeutic companion at the Catholic University of Cuyo. «He gave me a number of elements to strengthen my creative task. I think it was a success, it was a great effort, because I worked, I had my house and social obligations, but I felt very motivated, because it was another possibility to strengthen the resources for health, “he said. In that place he found a lot of love, calm and the possibility of personal development.which allowed him to continue standing.
At the time, Nuris returned to Roca as a dancer and therapeutic companion. Upon arrival, she once more contacted the hospital where she worked in the mental health sector. «That allowed me to get closer to the woman who is in a hospital, to the child who is sad and happy. Such are the different colors of life that art has»he expressed.
Thus, at the age of 68, he began to contain and support those who suffered from clinical, psychiatric or motor pathologies from a psychosocial approach, with the aim of healing, repairing and humanizing. «There is an energy, a vibration that is offered to the other and the other is there, pending. When one goes through situations of great sorrow, of great loss, this sustains you.“, he remarked. He also directed and participated in the recovery of alcoholic patients.
But her desire to continue dancing was latentTherefore, he decided to remember his work as an accompanist and returned to dance.
«I believe that life is a dance. We are beings of movement, we are not sitting, or the one who is in a quiet job feels the lack of movement. This is what we are, we stop, we go, we come, it is what we naturally do, “he explained.
In the middle of the interview, Nuris quoted the writer Bellara who stressed that dancing “‘must be in the houses, in the streets, in the people.’ And I did that. I left a dance school, I went to the hospital, and from the hospital I came back enriched because I always had the support of the nurses, the professionals, the staff, who were delighted when they saw that a patient might be in bed and move their arms with a ribbon, with a colored elastic».
So today Nuris is the construction of what she was able to do with contact with others, both in the field of health and in art. «Many times one thinks he knows. The truth is that knowledge is the immensity of the sea, it does not end, it is beyond”he concluded.
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