I'm Margoth Díaz Gática, dancer and founder of School of Oh Margoth. After years on stage, I opened my own school in Santiago to share chair dance with anyone who wants to get on a chair for the first time — no matter their age or experience.

Chair dance is an aerobic discipline anyone can practice to improve their physical and mental health: it combines physical activity with sensuality. We work on exercise routines and choreographed phrases using a chair, moving up levels as the body gains confidence.

Like pole dance, it tones the body, burns calories and improves cardiovascular health — but here we also work on self-awareness, self-esteem, flexibility and teamwork.

Today I also lead Chair Festival, the event a dancer friend and I built to give Chilean chair dance a stage of its own.