A set of rules to allow gyms, dance centers and swimming pools to reopen. The decision will be up to the new government and will be taken in the next Dpcm (the current provision is valid until 5 March).
Eleonora Burgsthaler, artistic director and technical manager of the dance school and fitness center “Angels on the Toes“Of Dairago, in video interview that we present below, cross your fingers and hope we can anticipate the times of one or two weeks. Anyhow, the feeling is that of feeling the last among the last («We have been completely forgotten by everyone»).
Dance schools, like yours, find themselves in a black situation, after months of closure, far from their students and from teaching activities (online lessons have been activated, but in the long run the relations interpersonal and the strict sense of “locker room”, of experiencing something common that is good for the body and mind, fail). A feeling of “emptiness” which encompasses all ages and also penalizes adults and the elderly registered in the fitness center, in which psycho-physical well-being takes on and acquires a fundamental dimension on the state of health.
“It is precisely the more human side of our business that is taking a very sad turn – continues Eleonora Burgsthaler – From four-year-old girls who are sad because they cannot come to live their dream, to high school girls who are closing in on themselves . Up to older people and ladies who need to move to feel good, for the mood and to be able to have fun at a time when we don’t have much ».
To aggravate the situation, the expenses incurred in these months of closure: rents, taxes, bills and remuneration for teachers and teachers who, albeit in a sort of “forced smart working”, have continued to offer courses and lesson hours. Going further in this way would be unthinkable, as the director and manager of the Dairago school makes it clear to us. Just as it would be a further meltdown to rely only and again on private lessons, it would mean not being able to bear the expenses for the time and commitment invested.
In short, a point of no return in every respect: economic and human.
Hence the appeal, which Eleonora Burgsthaler addresses “to everyone”, to those in charge of making decisions in this sense. And in his «to all of them» we read precisely the emergence of an instance that has so far fallen on deaf ears, of a “voice” unheard and forgotten for too long.
«We have adequate facilities, come check us out. Here we have 900 square meters available and we respect every protocol. Check it out, whoever can stay open and those who currently do not have the possibilities will adapt. This is what I feel like saying “to everyone” and that they listen to us, in short».
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