Silvita Diaz Brown is a Mexican-American choreographer, dancer, movement educator, and Artistic Director of Sildance/AcroDanza, based in Chicago since 2008. She holds a BFA in Dance from Universidad de las Américas Puebla (Mexico) and an MFA in Theatre/Movement from York University (Canada).
A 2026 3Arts Awardee in Dance, Silvita is currently a Made in Chicago resident artist, presented through a collaboration among Pivot Arts, CLATA Destinos International Latino Theater Festival, the Wirtz Center, and the Physical Theater Festival. This residency culminates in the world premiere of her full-length dance-theater work, "Ellas y Yo: Mexicanas", October 2–4, 2026, at the Wirtz Center Chicago. Immediately following the Chicago premiere, the work travels to Argentina for the FITOV Festival, October 6–10, marking its first international presentation.
Founded by Silvita, Sildance/AcroDanza creates interdisciplinary dance-theater works that weave contemporary dance, acrobatics, physical theater, original music, text, video, and multimedia design. Her choreography has been supported and presented by organizations including DCASE, Chicago Dancemakers Forum, the National Museum of Mexican Art, Links Hall, See Chicago Dance, the Chicago Cultural Center, Ragdale, The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, Ballet 5:8, Momenta Dance, Malcolm X College, and others.
Her work has been presented throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, Cuba, Spain, and India.
Silvita's interdisciplinary practice celebrates her Mexican heritage while exploring identity, migration, memory, belonging, and women's empowerment. Drawing from personal experience, collective history, mysticism, and folklore, she investigates the self; its desires, fears, transformations, and connections to others. Her work embraces elements of magic realism, creating spaces where movement, image, sound, and story can reveal unexpected connections and possibilities.
Her background in yoga and partner acrobatics continues to profoundly shape her choreography, creative process, and teaching. She has trained in multiple yoga traditions and with AcroYoga Montreal and Acro Dutch, and teaches yoga and movement throughout Chicago.
Through her art, Silvita invites audiences to embrace the complexity of identity, honor cultural inheritance, and imagine new possibilities for resilience, freedom, belonging, and human connection.
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.