Fernanda Amaral received many very positive supporting letters for her Creative Wales Award application.
“She is a charismatic dancer with an engaging, disarmingly natural, fluid quality. She draws on her Brazilian roots bringing her positive, colourful, intuitive moving body into her work.” Eeva-Maria Mutka
“I feel empathy with Fernanda’s approach to working and creating performances with individuals, her positive and dynamic way always focusing on the ability of each person, to build on a welcoming, warm and inclusive environment for all who wish to participate in workshops, classes and performance creation.” Sioned Huws
“It gives BVSNW great pleasure to offer our full support to Ms Fernanda Amaral, one of our most experienced and successful Artist Database members.” Leanne Rahman
“I know Fernanda Amaral as an extremely talented and experienced creative artist whose medium is dance and movement. The primary vehicle for the expression of her unique view is the individuality of the human form and its distinct identity free from stigmatization and categorization” Emma Juliet Lawton
“As well as being dynamic and inspirational, Fernada has an intuitive ability to treat people equally, equitably as individuals. As well as enabling people from all walks of life to enjoy dance, movement and find physical creative freedom , this ability is of particular importance to disabled people and inclusive groups.” Chris Tally Evans


Creates a landscape of bodies in movement working from sensation to movement using the creative dynamic of the group to create a piece that is challenging, affirming and real.
The company is preparing a professional mixed ability dance performance devised by the dancers and the Artistic Director and Choreographer Fernanda Amaral. The production will create a landscape of bodies in movement by a mixed group of disabled and non-disabled women dancers. The work is based on the techniques of DanceAbility and the premise of creative equality challenging preconceptions of dis/ability and working from sensation to movement using the creative dynamic of the group to create a piece that is challenging, affirming and real.