Hi! I am Martina. Nice to meet you! It makes me very happy that you found your way to my blog! Let me tell you a little bit about me: I have my roots in the performing arts. I was a professional ballet and contemporary dancer. I was trained and later danced mainly in Italy (Florence and Milan) but also in the United States and in Russia. I made my dance pedagogy degree at the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan and I taught ballet, character dance, stretching and conditiong for many years. I still dance a little bit just for myself, just for fun. Besides performing and teaching, I managed a musician with whom I published several award-winning solo piano albums as well as music for ballet class tailored to my needs back then when I was teaching young ballet students aspiring a professional career in dance.