Joel da Silva

Portugal
Year of starting to practice
2012
Year of starting to teach
2014
Joel da Silva

Part of my life was dedicated to martial arts, through jujitsu, greek wrestling, capoeira and Tai-Chi. Some years later i have learned and taught Thai massage and Yumeiko, which itself contains a lot of movement and flow, but something was missing!!! It was in 2012 that I found what I was looking incessantly, with the first experience in a festival of contact improvisation in Romania.

I listen, observe, communicate, feel and manifest the universe that flows through me as a whole.

Since then I have been dedicated myself to research movement in its total authenticity and presence, having as a base of study several festivals, jams, classes and workshops all over Europe and Asia.

Significant teachers
Cyrus Khambatta, Jeff Wallace, Bernd Knappe, Alexandra Soshnikova, Sergey Golovnea, Eniko Szilagyi, Ippokratis Veneris, Ezra Lebank, Steve Batts, Nancy Stark, Andrew Hardwood, Steve Paxton.