05/21/2026
TONIGHT!
✨✨SILVESTRE TECHNIQUE ✨✨630PM - 8:00PM
ALL LEVELS WELCOME!!!
This video is from 2022 California Brazil Camp (Tyler Chen credit) with our very own dance and music director Esteban Sanchez. The beauty of Silvestre Technique is that movement is created in the moment, on the spot, with all levels! It is such a fun process for movement explorers of all kinds!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSqEd812mwY
What is Silvestre Technique?
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.
A series of compositions are created based on the conversation between the body and the music, the music of the body, and most importantly the "silence" that connects us all. With the inspiration that guides us, we can discover how to create dance and music constantly. All levels are welcomed and encouraged to train in this technique.
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.
Triangles:
Triangle of intuition, visualization and perception: located from the top of the head to the shoulders.
Triangle of expression: located from the shoulders down to the belly button.
Triangle of balance: located from the hips down to the feet.
In the Silvestre Technique, these triangles are connected with the four elements of Nature: Earth, Water, Air, Fire.
Earth: connects with the triangle of balance, that gives a sense of grounding and stabilization (grand plié can be connected with the Earth).
Water: connects with the triangle of expression, which allows one to experience fluidity and grace (contractions and undulations can be connected with Water).
Air: connects with the triangle of expression for the sense of the freedom to move (pirouettes and jumps can be connected with Air).
Fire: connects with the triangle of intuition, visualization and perception, conceptually giving a sense of what the Technique defines as determination, will-power and attack (grand battement can be connected with Fire).
In addition, the Silvestre Technique brings the foundation of the Chakras, the central forces of the body, to enhance the internal connection with the dancers' "verticality" and alignment.
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