Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Silvio Dos Reis and his students from UW Music and Dance present a concert of music and movement of Capoeira Angola from Brazil. Featuring the UW World Music Ensemble, Pre-K Capoeira students from University Cooperative School, and members of Seattle's Union Cultural Center.
Biography
Silvio Dos Reis
Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Silvio Dos Reis, known to his students as Mestre Silvinho, is a master of Capoeira Angola, an Afro-Brazilian martial art that integrates music, movement, and philosophy. This performance is the culmination of his two-quarter residency at the University of Washington.
Silvio Dos Reis has dedicated his life to Capoeira for the past 31 years. He started teaching Capoeira in Brazil and moved to Seattle in 2004. Since then he has been teaching after-school programs at Seattle public schools, Capoeira workshops, and ongoing classes at Evergreen State College, Western Washington University, and the University of Washington. He offered Capoeira classes for kids and youths at Northwest School and Gage Academy summer camps from 2012 to 2014. He worked for Seattle Parks and Recreation offering the ARTS IN THE PARKS – kids and youth program – for the summer of 2013. Silvio has been offering the capoeira workshop at NW Folklife for the past 10 years. As a way to promote Capoeira in the community, Silvio runs his own Capoeira school, the International Capoeira Angola Foundation/ICAF SEATTLE, located in Seattle, where he offers regular classes for adults, youths, kids and toddlers. As a director of ICAF/SEATTLE, Silvio Dos Reis is the program leader of the Racial Equity initiative that his organization is implementing for the Seattle community this year. The program offers free Capoeira class for People Of Color, community forums, dialogues, and workshops for the POC and Seattle community. Silvio Dos Reis also offers free capoeira classes for kids and youth from POC families at Rainier Beach Community Center and Eastern African Community Center.