Silvita Diaz Brown is a Mexican-American choreographer, dancer, actor, acrobat, and movement educator based in Chicago since 2008. She is the founder and artistic director of Sildance/AcroDanza, a dance-theater company that blends contemporary dance, acrobatics, and physical theater. Silvita holds a BFA in Dance from Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Mexico) and an MFA in Theatre/Movement from York University (Canada).
Her choreography has been presented and supported by organizations including the Chicago Dancemakers Forum, DCASE Individual Artist Grant, the National Museum of Mexican Art, Links Hall, See Chicago Dance, the Chicago Cultural Center, Ragdale, the Made In Chicago Residency, Physical Theater, Pivot Arts, Northwester University, The Dance Center of Columbia College, Ballet 5:8, Momenta Dance, and Malcolm X College, among others. Internationally, she has performed at festivals and venues in Cuba, Spain, India, Canada, Mexico, and throughout the United States.
As a performer, Silvita has collaborated with independent choreographers, dance companies, theater directors, and multidisciplinary artists in Egypt, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. She has also completed two yoga teacher certifications and trained in partner acrobatics with Acroyoga Montreal and Acro Dutch. She teaches yoga and movement throughout Chicago, where her yoga and partner acrobatics practice continue to profoundly shape her choreography, creative process, and performance.
Silvita's interdisciplinary work celebrates her Mexican heritage while exploring identity, migration, memory, and women's empowerment. She investigates the self, its desires, fears, and transformations, through the lens of personal experience and collective history, examining how individual lives intersect with broader cultural narratives. Inspired by mysticism, history, and folklore, she uncovers the extraordinary within everyday life. Magic realism permeates her work, transforming seemingly conflicting truths into moments of revelation. Through her art, Silvita invites audiences to embrace the complexity of their identities and imagine new possibilities for belonging, resilience, and connection.