About Silvia 

Silvia Sheffield is a Durham-based dance artist from Rockbridge County, Virginia, where she grew up dancing at Halestone Dance Studio and with the Community Dance Connection Theatre. Silvia then continued her education at Oberlin College, where she received a B.A. in Dance and English and was awarded the Helen Ward Memorial Prize in Theater and Dance. Since moving to North Carolina in 2015, her work been presented by Tobacco Road Dance Productions, the Asheville Fringe Arts Festival, the Shenandoah Fringe Festival, Black Mountain Museum + Arts Center, the Halestone Foundation, and RECITAL. As a performer, Silvia strives to be brazenly vulnerable and mixes improvisation and dance theater to create visually striking dances. In addition to performing, Silvia has taught classes in contact improv and improvisational performance and has led and participated in several community-based dance programs. In her life outside of dance, Silvia is a librarian and powerlifter.