Silvia is present on the international salsa and latin dance scene since the year 2002. She has been performing and teaching in Poland, Germany, Norway, Czech Republic, Choratia, United Kingdom... She started to dance in 1990, the ballroom and latin dances for the competition to beguin with than jazz dancing (while in New York) and salsa. She was one of the first to introduce Brasilian samba in Poland and one of the first to represent her country in the interational salsa congresses. Not only dancing for the art and cultural congresses, since the year 2000 along with the dance groups (Los Bailadores, Sahra Atesi, etc.) she created and choreographed, her company provided the best entertainment on the comertial company events and many TV and stage productions. She was running the dance school of few hundred dance students in the center of Warsaw (Tancerze.pl) - many of them run they own schools and dance companies now. Her dancing style is influenced the mostly by the teachers she started with that is: - ballroom and latin dances for the competition: Tomasz Reindl and Joanna Dąbrowska (PL) Iwona Pawlowic (PL) Monika i Roman Pawelec (PL) Nyemcheck Dance Studio teachers (NY - USA) - salsa: Melissa Fernandez and Luis Vazquez (LA) Frankie Martinez (NY) - samba: Pedro Rosa (Rio, Brasil) - jazz and musiacall dancing: Nyemcheck Dance Studio teachers (NY - USA), Joahim Sauter (NY - USA) - acrobatics: Dariusz Obrębski (PL - stunt artist, acrobatics teacher in the Warsaw Sport Academy) Jacek Mieczkowski (rock&roll, boogie) and many others... In the last years, 2009 - 2011, she is spending most of the time in London and Warsaw, and was cooperating, performing and/or teaching for: - Duende DC of Andrea Stuart (UK) - Latin Collective (UK) - La Scala Latina, Bar Salsa - Mambo City Five Star Congress (UK) - Colosseum, El Grande (UK) - Salsa Tropical, Maria Palmieri (UK) Abbey Bar - Salsa Party Time, HJB Wimbledon & Catherham (UK) - Art Bale, Summer International Dance Workshops - in co with Warsaw Ballet School (PL) - Ipanema Group (PL) |