by Amy Brandt | Oct 2, 2024 | Career, Onstage, The Latest
Longtime Dance Theatre of Harlem star Ingrid Silva has always kept herself busy with independent projects—she is co-founder of Blacks in Ballet, a platform to celebrate Black dancers worldwide, as well as the nonprofit, female-run podcast podHER. But she’s recently...
by Linnea Swarting | Feb 22, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Ingrid Silva has several titles—dancer, founder, activist and author among them. But the one that’s changed her life the most is “Mom.” “Since becoming a mother, something’s happened to me, my dancing and my work that’s blowing me away,”...
by As Told To Zoe Phillips | Aug 4, 2021 | Career, Company Life
Mathilde Froustey has always wanted to be a mother. “I never saw myself just as a dancer,” says the San Francisco Ballet principal. “Backstage, onstage, even when I was getting ready for a show, I knew something was missing. And I knew what it was.”Now almost nine...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 17, 2020 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Profiles, Viral Videos
Yesterday, the first of Nike’s new Common Thread video series dropped, and we were thrilled to see that it featured dancers; namely, Dance Theatre of Harlem member (and June/July 2017 Pointe cover star) Ingrid Silva, and Florida-based ballet student Alex Thomas....
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 7, 2019 | News, Profiles, Viral Videos
Yesterday, pointe shoes made national news when “The Today Show” covered the shift that some brands have made towards creating shoes in shades of brown. The five-minute Sunday Spotlight segment, hosted by NBC’s Willie Geist and Morgan Radford,...
by Madeline Schrock | Aug 26, 2018 | Just for fun
Let’s face it. Dancers just do things differently. We can never walk down a grocery aisle—we have to tap. We can never simply pick something up we’ve dropped—without going into a penché. But it’s not a bad thing. We love all the ways that dance...
by Madeline Schrock | Aug 26, 2018 | Just for fun
Let’s face it. Dancers just do things differently. We can never walk down a grocery aisle—we have to tap. We can never simply pick something up we’ve dropped—without going into a penché. But it’s not a bad thing. We love all the ways that dance...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 18, 2018 | Profiles
Dance Theatre of Harlem’s vivacious Ingrid Silva is extending her efforts beyond the borders of the dance world. Last winter she founded EmpowHerNY, a platform that allows women from all over the world to connect and support one another by sharing their...