In Elisabeth Bergmann's case it is just the opposite: she saw her passion for dancing as the opportunity to get to know new worlds, to teach others how to express themselves through dance and how to know others through their dance and finally, she went at bringing diverse worlds together by using a common language that does not need translation: the dance. Bergmann took her passion for dance, mixed with her love of teaching and traveling and gave the world the opportunity to see and feel differently. The population of Trinidad and Tobago was just happening to help her in her undertaking to see the world through its diversity.

Bergmann counts herself among those fortunate ones that benefited form having a dance teacher that not only convinced her of his own genuine passion for dance, but also encouraged her to put all her energy into a passion for this kind of art. It results that she was did not only learn how to focus on her own person, which for most artists is enough in the development of their carriers, but she also found in herself the resources to express this passion differently. Her passion for dancing did not remain encircled by the love for expressing herself on the stage, for the public. She dedicated her...

As those who are passionate for traveling often confess that they appreciate especially the opportunity to learn about themselves through their travels, so does Bergmann appreciate the power of discovering new faces of one's humanity in the eyes and art of foreign cultures. She is clearly an artist that has surpassed the boundaries of a single passion, she is beyond her love of dancing, and she works and acts in the name of her passion for people. One of the essential things that differentiates human beings form the animal kingdom is art and Bergmann's passion for art appears to have driven her throughout her life and guided her into the choices she has made about her carrier.
Bergmann, Elisabeth. 2007. Dancing My Passion. ReVista. Harvard Review of Latin America. Dance! Global Transformations of Latin American Culture

Fall 2007. Available at: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revista/articles/view/984