Silvita Diaz Brown
Dance
Chicago, IL
Silvita Diaz Brown is a Mexican-American choreographer, dancer, and movement educator based in Chicago since 2008. She founded Sildance/AcroDanza, blending contemporary dance, acrobatics, and physical theater. Her work has been supported and or presented by DCASE, Chicago Dancemakers Forum, See Chicago Dance, Ragdale, Ballet 5:8, Momenta Dance, the National Museum of Mexican Art, Links Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center among many other organizations. Internationally, she has performed in Cuba, Spain, India, Canada, Mexico, and across the U.S. A three-time 3Arts Award nominee in Dance, and a Platform Award nominee in 2024. Silvita was a 2025 Chicago Dancemakers Forum Finalist and a Boddy Passages Artist in residency at Chicago Danztheater Ensemble. She holds a BFA in Dance from UDLAP (Mexico) and an MFA in Theatre/Choreography from York University (Canada). Her work centers stories exploring journeys of self-transformation, empathy and human connection through creative movement. As a Mexican woman who left her country in search of her own voice and identity, movement is her central guiding force and point of connection to the other collaborating arts and with other collaborating artists. Silvita blends elements of contemporary dance, ballet, acroyoga, circus and physical theater to excavate, embrace and reconcile her heritage, history, and cultures and to share the complexity of the ideas and emotions that surround her concept of self and of home. Mysticism and magic realism are electrical currents that run through all her work, transforming conflicting truths into moments of revelation that she wants to share with audiences and communities. As an immigrant artist she seeks to inspire audiences to embrace their identities and futures no matter where they come from.