Dance is Music

SS: “…but also knowing that I had studied anthropology and done a lot of dance anthropology, and done different percussive dance forms, first of all, kind of deconstructing it.”

DD: “Deconstruct the movement?”

SS: “The movements and the sounds….You realize there’s a common language in all of them for sure…but how they’re executed has a lot to do with their rituals and their culture.  I think that when you see somebody from that culture and they’re so inside it, there’s going to be intention and there’s going to be a feeling because it emanates from that culture and from a ritual.  So in My Dance I think what we try to do is kind of deconstruct the vocabulary and start to form…a merging…so it’s not like, ‘ok, now I’m doing a tap step, now I’m doing a this,’ but more having fusion.”

- Excerpted from Entrevue Sandy Silva, Julie Lachance et Dominic Desrochers with Dena Davida, September 30, 2011