The 1st GP ÁGORA Research Seminar: ways of being in Dance surpassed all expectations. In addition to the diverse audience of undergraduate and graduate students, incredible conferences and performances enriched the very high quality programming. There were moments of research-teaching-extension in perfect connection. In a Brazil that witnesses the dismantling and scrapping of Education and Culture, seminars like this one impels us to continue to fight based on reflections forged by us and so many other scholars in the world. We are resisting together. For public education and culture.