ROSANGELA SILVESTRE

Rosangela Silvestre is a choreographer, instructor, dancer and creator of the Silvestre Dance Technique. Silvestre, a native of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, graduated with a bachelor's and post-graduate degree in dance from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). She has researched dance and music in Brazil, India, Egypt, Senegal and Cuba as part of her ever-evolving and eclectic repertoire of movement. She trained in diverse techniques like Martha Graham, Limón, Horton, Floor Bar, Classic Ballet, Dunham Technique, and has performed and choreographed for a number of companies in Brazil and other countries.

Silvestre has traveled internationally teaching, training dancers, performing, facilitating lectures and demonstrations, consulting, attending seminars and residencies at universities and dance festivals in Contemporary, Folkloric, as well as traditional dances of Africa and other continents. In 2011, Silvestre completed an album called, "Voices of Nature." She continues to use her voice as an integral part of her work in dance

Join us for 3 special workshops

  • Silvestre Technique

    MAY 2ND

    6pm - 8pm

    Union Cultural Center
    803 S King St, Seattle

    An invitation to experience training process of Silvestre Technique with its creator, Rosangela Silvestre, from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil! Silvestre Technique is an evolving contemporary dance technique that conditions and prepares the body, to find their expression potential. Working with “the Body Universe”, symbolized by three triangles on the body, the technique emphasizes the connection of the physical body with the Elements of Nature and the Cosmos.

    The technique works to create a dialogue with the body that builds form and activates intention in personal expression, while staying connected to the energy centers of the body and elements of nature.

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  • SYmbology of Caboclo

    MAY 3rd

    2:30PM -4:30PM

    Brazil in Motion
    418 N 35th St, Seattle

    You are invited on a journey of dance and movements that express the messages of people from the land, the Indigenous Caboclo of Brazil. Allow yourself to dive into the elements of nature, to the integration of rhythms, songs, and the connections of community to your own nature

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  • Symbology of Orixas

    MAY 4TH

    3:30PM - 5:30PM

    Vamola! Solstice Workshop
    American Dance Institute
    1240 NE 175th St C, Shoreline

    Allow yourself to discover and experience how sacred symbology inspires the body to dance and express through the traditional rhythms, archetypes and stories of the Orixas and the ancestral memory in the religion, culture and tradition, as inspiration and creativity in the African-Brazilian arts.

    We will dive into a channel of inspiration to experience the archetypal energies that we all have innate access to, and how they are experienced in relationship to the elements of nature - Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. This class will use gestures and traditional symbols of the Orixa dances for inspiration and discovery of archetypal expression.

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