We are welcoming two very fine guest artists to Salt Lake City in May: Rosangela Silvestre and Marivaldo Dos Santos will visit our community to share their culture and knowledge in a weekend of group drum and dance classes, open to all levels.

May 16-19
We will be offering five classes with these fine guest artists
SLC Arts Hub, 663 W 100 S, upstairs in the dance studio
$100 Full Workshop (Five Classes)
$30 Single Class
(Class Schedule Below)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Rosangela Silvestre has rigorously researched dance and music in India, Egypt, Brazil, United States, and Cuba as part of her ever-evolving and eclectic movement palette. A graduate of the Federal University of Bahia, she has studied and helped to evolve an “Afro-Brazilian” dance with Mestre King, Clyde Morgan and Mercedes Baptista beginning in the late 1970s. She has initial training in classical Ballet as well as Modern dance in the Horton and Graham techniques. In the 1990s, Silvestre toured extensively with jazz musician Steve Coleman and his group the Five Elements. She has set choreography on Brazil’s lauded company, Balé Folclórico da Bahia as well as Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company, Ballet Hispanico Repertory Company, American Academy of Ballet, Roots of Brazil, DanceBrazil, Viver Brasil, Muntu Dance Theater and the Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble. Rosangela is based in Salvador, Bahia and the US, and conducts dance training programs in the Silvestre Technique and Symbols in Motion Process throughout the US, Brazil, Japan, Canada and Europe.

Marivaldo Dos Santos is a musician, instrumentalist, composer and producer. He is a currently a cast member of the acclaimed American drum group “Stomp,” performing as a soloist and leading musician in the broadway show and world tours for over 20 years. Through his project “Quabales,” Marivaldo promotes the fusion of traditional sacred musicality of Bahia, where he was born, with the rhythm-language of “Stomp.” Currently, Marivaldo constantly moves between Brazil and the United States in an effort to integrate the social, artistic and educational action of the Quabales project and the Stomp group. Marivaldo is also the rhythm composer of the film “Música."

CLASS SCHEDULE:

Thursday, May 16, 6:30-8:00pm
Symbology of Orixá Movement with Rosangela Silvestre

Friday, May 17, 6:30-8:00pm
Drum Class: Musicality and Composition with Marivaldo Dos Santos

Saturday, May 18, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Dance Class: Symbology of Orixá Movement with Rosangela Silvestre
&
12:15-1:45pm
Drum Class: Musicality and Composition with Marivaldo Dos Santos

Sunday, May 19, 11:00am - 1:00pm
Combined Class: Silvestre Dance Technique & Musicality with Rosangela Silvestre & Marivaldo Dos Santos

CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:

Symbology of Orixá Movement with Rosangela Silvestre
-All Levels Welcome-
A study of the connections between the rhythms and the traditional movement, archetype and story, of the Orixá dances interpreted as an art form. Discover how sacred symbolism inspires the body to dance.  Orixá is the Essence of the Universe. 

Musicality and Composition with Marivaldo Dos Santos
-Drums Provided, All Levels Welcome-
Experience the foundation of the traditional musicality and Sacred rhythms of Bahia African Culture, as inspiration to create phrases and to develop music language and rhythmic compositions.

Silvestre Dance Technique
-All Levels Welcome-
A continuously evolving contemporary dance technique with the objective of conditioning the dancer through physical and expressive training, regardless of level or previous experience. 

*No one turned away for lack of funds. Please let us know if you need financial assistance.