Sandy Silva
Quebec, Canada
Sandy Silva's work stands at the vanguard of contemporary artistry in traditional music and dance. For the past thirty years, she has drawn from percussive dance practices from many regions, including Hungary, Appalachia, Cape Breton, and Andalusia, as well as the idioms of circus, contemporary dance, and theatre. Sandy weaves a dialogue between these vocabularies, blending the local and the post-modern in an organic, bodily response to her world. The result is an incredibly dynamic and emotive