michelle lisa polissaint: i think the cultures that exist here.e a lot of caribbean, indigenous, and diaspora communities that are in the city, so the only way our communities can survive is if we communicate with each other and we engage with others. narrator: and another form of communication and art is dance. sandra portal-andreu: my father's cuban, my mother's colombian. growing up in miami and just kind of bringing all that together and saying, ok, this is what i wanna express. in miami i really had an amazing opportunity to explore site specificity for different spaces, whether it be the hialeah racetrack or the main library in downtown miami. sort of taking dance outside from, like, the proscenium stage and into communal space so that it's not just movement for movement's sake, but it's movement for a purpose. can you give me some pointers? maybe show me your art and how it works? sure, sure. johnny devenanzio: ok. sandra portal-andreu: when i see a sculpture like this, i am trying to sort of form my body in ways that i can sort of be one w