Giving Life to Movement: The Silvestre Dance Technique

Contents

• Acknowledgments ix
• Foreword by Lela Aisha Jones 1
• Preface 5
• Introduction 9
• I. African-Brazilian Culture in the 1970s and the History of Silvestre Technique 21
• II. Creating Possibilities: An Approach to Silvestre Technique 35
• III. Practicing the Technique 43
• IV. Conceptualizations of Silvestre Technique 65
• V. Definition of Silvestre Terms and Positions 87
• VI. Introductory Sequences for Silvestre Dance Technique Class 107
• VII. Methodology and Pedagogy 232
• VIII. Self-Actualization 248
• Afterword 257
• Appendix 259
• Bibliography 269
• Index 273