After I attended that first “Poly in the Pub” event, I decided to pop over to Sandbar with the Trauma folks before going home.

I got talking to Dom about my project and how I was desperate for dancers, how none of my previous collaboration attempts had worked out etc, and he said that the following day he was going to have lunch with a friend of his who happens to be a ballet and contemporary dancer. He said I’d be welcome to join them, so I did.

So Bernardo is Portuguese and is currently attending the Northern Ballet School here in Manchester. It was great to realise he’s lusophone, meaning we had an exciting moment speaking in our mother tongues 😛 He said he has been to Brazil and LOVED it, which of course went down quite well with me hahaha He’s a genuinely nice guy and we clicked…