Sally Silvers

Sally Silvers is an award winning choreographer who also has published articles, essays, and poems in magazines, chapbooks, journals and anthologies. She continues to have an on-going fascination with the poetic as well as the social meanings of movement, offering a no-holds- barred exploration of movement possibilities — often tilted toward the eccentric, awkward, and unexpected. Silvers has performed in South Korea, London, Puerto Rico, France, Mexico, Berlin, Sweden, and Denmark, at the Joyce Theater, and many other national and international venues. She was a core member of the faculty at Bennington College Summer Choreography Project for 5 years and a guest teacher at the European Dance Development Center in Holland for a decade. She is the co-director of 2 award-winning dance films & is known for several community curatorial projects including TalkTalkWalkWalk (combining dance artists and poets) and Surprise Every Time (a festival of  “live choreography’ – starting a new dance live in front of the audience on the spot)..  From 2005 to 2011 she danced in the new and historical works of Yvonne Rainer. She has been collaborating with Bruce Andrews since the early 1980s. Last major piece from late 2022, Pandora’s Cake Stain, sublimely mashes up the radical artist Tina Modotti with Alban Berg’s Lulu — performances archived online at Roulette.org (& a film version likely soon to come).