Rosangela Silvestre Dance Technique and Symbology Workshop

Rosangela Silvestre is a world renound master teacher, choreographer, dancer and artist. In this special community workshop you will learn from the master herself, the Silvestre Dance Technique and Symbology. This workshop is for you to deepen your study of dance by conditioning your body, internalizing, and connecting to the four elements of nature and the four directions. You will learn symbols that can dress the body to empower your dance. You will create possibilities to discover... and leave this workshop inspired, grounded and expressed. What to wear: Black or dark clothing preffered. (dancewear or yoga attire)No shoesAll levels--Mixed levels--No previous dance training is nessesary. Pre-register as space is limited. > About The Silvestre Technique and Symbology:The Silvestre Technique is a continuously evolving contemporary dance technique with the objective of conditioning the dancer through physical and expressive training - regardless of level or previous experience. In 1982, Rosangela Silvestre began the early stages of developing the Silvestre Technique, which over time has progressed into a series of exercises - "conversations with the body" - working to prepare body, mind, and spirit for dance.The Silvestre Technique brings to dance training a connection with the physical body and its connection to the Universe, which Silvestre calls, "the Body Universe." The Body Universe is symbolized by three triangles formed on the body. Expressed gestures of the Orixa dance movement in combination with the Silvestre Technique is called, Sybology. Symbology is a study of the archtyles (traditional) symbols as inspiration to create dance choreography, and how to work with the Silvestre Technique creatively.> About Rosangela Silvestre:Choreographer, instructor, dancer and creator of the Silvestre Dance Technique, Rosangela is a native of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, where she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Dance and post-graduated specializing in choreography, achieving her degree 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 palette of movement. She acquired training in such diverse techniques as: Martha Graham, Limón, Horton, Floor Bar, Classic Ballet, Dunham Technique, and has experienced diverse dance expressions - such as Germany Theater Dance, Contemporary, Folkloric, as well as Traditional dances of Africa and other continents. Her instructors include Raimundo Bispo dos Santos (Mestre King), Mercedes Baptista, Clayde Morgan, Carlos Moraes, Nelma Seixas, among others, beginning in the late 1970s. Since 1981, Ms. Silvestre started to travel in and out of Brazil to teach, to train dancers, to perform, to lecture and to demonstrate, to consult, and attended seminars and residencies in diverse universities, dance festivals such as: Colorado College Dance Festival; New Orleans Dance Festival; and dance camps such as the California Brazil Camp each year. She choreographed numerous dance pieces for companies based in Brazil - Balé Folclórico da Bahia and Odunde - as well as Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company, Ballet Hispanico Repertory Company, American Academy of Ballet, Roots of Brazil, Dance Brazil, Viver Brasil, Muntu Dance Theater, and the Kendra Kimbrough Dance Company. Her dance investigation and constant development created an opportunity to connect with the eclectic American musician Steve Coleman, with whom she traveled to diverse countries which have African roots in their music and dance. With Steve Coleman, Rosangela developed an idea to have the body as an instrument that provides the movement-form of any sound that can be captured - thereby discovering and creating dance at any moment. Rosangela is currently the choreographer of Viver Brasil Dance Company Directed by Linda Yudin and Luiz Badaró. Rosangela's use of her voice is an integral part of her work in dance. In September 2011 she completed the CD:"Voices of Nature" recorded and produced by Mike Zecchino at The Nail Recording Studio in Tucson, Arizona. Visit CD BABY to listen and purchase. For more information about the Silvestre Dance Technique or the Training Program visit: http://www.silvestretraining.com/