Getting Started

SylviDances works to provide accessible dance performances and interdisciplinary experiences in the DC metro area and beyond. Collaborators are the engine behind the company bringing their creativity and mastery in areas including choreography, composition, design, improvisation, partnering, ensemble work and theater. Current company members include Grace Cannon, Sylvana Christopher, Aaron Jackson, Rachel Lawal, Keith Macadangdang, and Deanna Woodman.
Nilton Rodney and DeAunna Blackwell pictured in Choosing Fate performed at NACHMODC.
Photo by Rob Cannon.

A Friend Like You (ICONS Thesis). Photo by David Dowling.

Heffalumps marching to the beat and scoping out the scene attempting to haunt Christopher Robin’s dreams. Working on this ballet, A Friend Like You, we found joy in the loving nature of all the inhabitants of E.H. Shepherd and A.A. Milne’s 100 Acre Wood. Artist Anne Liberman designed the costumes and projections which brought the ballet to life. The musical score is a piano duet called “Carnaval D’Aix”. It is composed by Darius Milhaud (1932) and is a jostle into a fantasy world. Performers include Leila Stelik-Barry, Covenant Babatunde, Sara Strom, Noah Strand, DeAunna Blackwell, and Rachel Lawal.