The Repertoire

dancers: Lana Hankinson, Adelita Hinojosa-Martin

This piece was created by Adelita Hinojosa-Martin, artistic director of Larga Vista Dance and oncology-certified registered nurse. The words at the beginning of the piece are by Miho Ryu, in response to Adelita asking if she'd be willing to share some thoughts that go through her mind as she is going through the challenging process of chemotherapy for her breast cancer recurrence.

"What is a concern that comes up in your mind, and a calming thought that helps you refocus?" Miho's response: "There have been many moments when the treatment felt so painful, and being unable to dance felt so devastating, that I found myself wondering what reason I had to keep going. But whenever I reach that lowest point, what rises from the deepest part of me is always the same thought: 'I want to dance.' Not next year. Not when I’m healed. I want to dance now. Because this present moment, this connection to life right now, is what time and life are made of. To honor that desire, I push beyond the fatigue and discomfort. Even if it’s only for one minute or five minutes, I try to stand up and dance. I encourage myself, gather my strength, and keep moving. Again and again, my body and spirit may fall, but in the end, I keep finding the strength to continue because I still want to dance. To live fully. To dance fully. That desire keeps bringing me back to life🫶"

This piece was inspired by Miho's words, from a nurse's perspective. This piece was created for Miho Ryu, as part of a fundraiser to help her as she undergoes chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery. The show was organized by The Next Stage Project, held at Peridance Studios in New York City, where many artists performed to support our friend Miho.

Choreography incorporated short sections of dancers' improvisation 

videography by BeccaVision

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Music: Breaking the Cycle by Keith Merrill ; She is the Earth by Etelea (we do not own the rights to the music)

Reclaim Her

"Reclaim Her," this piece is a structured improvisation about women's strength. Choreographed and presented by Adelita Hinojosa-Martin, artistic director of Larga Vista Dance, and oncology certified nurse.

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Workshop: “Reclaim Her: The Women’s Healing Experience. A space for women to learn, heal, and reconnect with their bodies through real conversation, expert insight, art, and movement.”

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At some point, most women have felt it. The exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix. The symptoms that get brushed off. The appointments where you leave with more confusion than answers. The hours spent Googling, trying to figure out what’s actually going on in your own body. Whether you’re pregnant, postpartum, navigating perimenopause or menopause, living with endometriosis or PMOS — or just knowing something is off and not having the language for it yet — this experience was built for you. “Reclaim Her: The Women’s Healing Experience” is a space where women’s health gets the depth, honesty, and respect it deserves. On June 6th, we brought together a clinical nutritionist, a mental & sexual health therapist, fitness professionals, and a registered nurse for real conversations around the things that affect us most — and that we’re most often left to figure out alone. Together we listened, learned, and closed with a live dance performance by Larga Vista Dance — because coming home to your body isn’t just something you think your way into. In a world full of noise, this is a room we trusted.

Music : She is the Earth by Etelea (we do not own the rights to the music)

A Thousand Quiet Unravelings

dancers: Roxanne Young, Adelita Hinojosa-Martin

This video captures our free Community Perimenopause Workshop, held on April 30, 2026 in Brooklyn, NY at the BrooklynArtery. Our dance company presented a structured improvisational dance piece called "A Thousand Quiet Unravelings," by artistic director Adelita Hinojosa-Martin, with dancer Roxanne Young. "A Thousand Quiet Unravelings" is a piece reflecting women going through Perimenopause - a time for deep reflection, seeing oneself like never before, and supporting other women who are experiencing this 'zone of chaos.' The poem (seen at the end of this video) was read prior to the dance piece. We held a free movie-watch of "The M Factor 2: Before the Pause, Perimenopause." We had a 'question and answer' session about perimenopause with menopause coach, Grace, of Elektra Health.

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Poem from the Perimenopause Workshop:

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The Unbecoming Touches Everything

Like water it touches everything. 

This tide that pulls at the anchors I once knew.

Even with the books open and the facts in hand,

It kicks at the door of my daily life, uninvited.

It is not one single thing,

But a thousand quiet unravelings.

A mind that once felt like a sharp blade

Now moves through the soft wool of fog.

A body that used to answer every command

Now speaks in the language of stiff joints and sudden aches and breaks.

The monthly chaos arrives like an unannounced guests,

Or vanishes, leaving a hollow silence behind.

The weight shifts, the skin changes,

The rhythm I spent forty years learning

Has suddenly changed its tune.

I try to "will" my way through,

To push the roller coaster back onto its track,

But the tracks have dissolved.

And in that loss of control, a mystery remains—

An ancient pulse beneath the skin

That I am only now beginning to hear.

It has taught me the geometry of grace.

The way a "No" can be a sanctuary.

I am shedding the skin of the people-pleaser,

Dropping the heavy bags of others' expectations

That I used to carry until I was breathless.

There is a switch, deep inside,

Flipping toward a fierce, quiet freedom.

The "unbecoming" is not a breaking;

It is the act of coming home to myself,

Boundaries steady, guards up,

And finally, finally, walking free.

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music "What Remains (feat. mondëna quartet) by Felix Rösch. We do not own the rights to this music