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This article aims to map and articulate two practices around the body and health care: selfcare and hapticality. These two practices and perspectives are intertwined in the emblematic phrase attributed to feminist Emma Goldman "if I can't dance, it's not my revolution". From the perspective of Erin Manning's minor gestures, dance is presented as a meeting that enables and stimulates this knowledge that is rarely addressed in health education. Joy, poetry and knowledge of one's own body and the body of the other, as well as attention, breathing and support are axes for listening and acting in the world. A smaller dance, which understands the body as a process of invention, creation and space of experience. This writing exercise aims to bring care and struggle together, in a possibility of transformation, revolution and ethics in the health area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]