Christine Matthée - Dancing to Her Own Tune, in a Style of Her Own Making - La Passerelle Dance Studio
There are many ways to find your voice. For Christine Matthée , it was through dance. As a child, Christine was extremely shy. She started speaking very late and struggled with severe dyslexia and other learning difficulties that made communication and school particularly challenging. She found it difficult to fit into the world around her, but dance was the one place where she felt at home. What began as a love for music and movement gradually became much more than a passion. It gave Christine a way to communicate, to understand herself and, eventually, to find her place in the world. Today, she runs La Passerelle Dance Studio in Schaerbeek, which she founded in September 2000. But the journey from the shy little girl who struggled to communicate to the woman who now teaches, choreographs and nurtures young dancers was anything but straightforward. It took determination, rejection, heartbreak, financial uncertainty and a great deal of courage. Above all, it took Christine's re...
