Workshops with Rosangela Silvestre and Marivaldo dos Santos 9-12/10 in Malmö and Copenhagen

Name: Workshops with Rosangela Silvestre and Marivaldo dos Santos 9-12/10 in Malmö and Copenhagen
Start: 2025-10-09T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-12T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Ungdomens Hus

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Sun, 12 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Ungdomens Hus | Malmö, SN

Silvestre DK, Mariposa, Silvestre SE & Vai! Dance and Art are so happy to welcome Rosangela Silvestre back to Scandinavia, this time for workshops in Copenhagen (9-10/10) and in Malmö (11-12/10).
*ONLY A FEW PLACES LEFT IN THE MALMÖ WORKSHOPS*
Register here for Malmö and Copenhagen workshops: https://forms.gle/kMnKwBVA1LbTJ5j58
Internationally celebrated and the founder of the Silvestre Technique, Rosangela will be leading workshops both in her contemporary dance movement technique as well as offering traditional afro-brazilian Orixa movement classes.
Rosangela's work closely links movement symbology along with musicality to create possibilities and experience through dance . All classes will be accompanied with live music
(More information about class description and Rosangelas bio are found further below).
Also joining us this year is Marivaldo dos Santos; composer, musician, percussionist and producer, Dos Santos has played and contributed to some of the most recognizable artists such as the legendary Sting, The Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Pras, Joshua Bell, Bill Frisell, Steve Coleman, Eliane Elias, Ivete Sangalo, Daniela Mercury, Margareth Menezes and the Rock in Rio Festival. Founder of Quabales, a social education project based in Salvador, that promotes inclusion through music and art bringing a vibrant mix of live and electronic new sounds and performances, please visit www.quabales.com. He is proud to be part of such an amazing production as STOMP.
Copenhagen
Thursday 9th October and Friday 10th October.
Tagnesboskolen, Magistervej 4, 2400 København NV.
Silvestre Workshop Program – Copenhagen, 9–10 October 2025
Thursday • 9 October
17:00 – 19:00 | Silvestre Technique
A practice that creates a dialogue with the body.
Builds form and activates personal intention while staying connected to the body’s energy center and the elements of nature.
Open to all levels of dance experience.
19:30 – 21:30 | Symbology of Orixás Dance
Explore how sacred Afro-Brazilian symbolism inspires movement.
Discover traditional rhythms, archetypes, and ancestral memories of the Orixás that nurture creativity and deep expression.
Friday • 10 October
18:00 – 20:00 | Percussion & Music Class
Led by composer-musician Marivaldo, focusing on body percussion and integrating music into performance.
Honors the vital role of sound and rhythm in the Silvestre process.
20:30 | Work-in-Progress Showing & Artist Talk
A choreographic composition sharing between Rosângela Silvestre and Marivaldo.
Open invitation to the local dance community to witness and discuss the creative process.
Malmö
The weekend will start off on Saturday with both theory and composition in the Silvestre technique workshop. This year we will be able to offer a more deepening experience in the Sunday workshops where we will dance, sing, play and learn about the history of Orixa.
Saturday 11th October, Rörelserummet, Stadion (TBA)
11:00-13:00 Silvestre Technique
14:00-16:00 Symbology of Orixas, dance movement
Sunday 12th October, Ungdomens hus sal 11 och 12
11:00-13:00 History, song and percussion
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:000-16:00 Symbology of Orixas, dance movement
Prices:
Early bird price with 10% discount if you sign up and pay before the 15th of September:
2hr Silvestre Technique - 400sek/270dkk
2hr Symbology of Orixas - 400sek/270dkk
Full day - 700sek
Full weekend - 1400sek
DK payments: Konto Silvestre. dk
Reg. 4160 k.nr. 4160757663
Mobilepay: 4276RV
W. Rosângela & Marivaldo Silvestre 9/10 okt. 2025
Registration: https://forms.gle/kMnKwBVA1LbTJ5j58
Contact: [email protected]
We look forward to a wonderful event!
Class descriptions and bio:
About Rosangela.
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.
Rosangela works with connections of symbologies that open ways and create possibilities to training through activation of the body intelligence and ancestral memories, that can bring revelations that empower the unique expression - movement, language, integrate contemporary ways of dances in communication with African Brazilian Culture.
Silvestre Technique.
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. Regardless of dance level or previous experience, each workshop will open possibilities for you to discover and experience intuition, expression, and balance.
Symbology of Orixás
We will dive into a channel of inspiration to experience the archetypal energies that we all have innate access to, and how experienced they are relationship to the elements of nature - Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. This class will use gestures and in traditional symbols of the Orixa dances for inspiration and discovery of archetypal expression. 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.
Register here: https://forms.gle/kMnKwBVA1LbTJ5j58