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Isaiah Silvia-Chandley is an award-nominated choreographer who recently made the move from Chicago to New York City. After graduating high school in 2012, Isaiah attended The Young Americans College of Performing Arts, an organization committed to global performance outreach, touring Europe, Japan and the United States performing and teaching song and dance.
...Read moreIsaiah Silvia-Chandley is an award-nominated choreographer who recently made the move from Chicago to New York City. After graduating high school in 2012, Isaiah attended The Young Americans College of Performing Arts, an organization committed to global performance outreach, touring Europe, Japan and the United States performing and teaching song and dance.
He has worked as a choreographer and an assistant to the director at several Boys and Girls Clubs of America national conference performances. In addition, Isaiah trained extensively at The School at Jacob's Pillow and Broadway Dance Center, with an emphasis in Musical Theatre Dance. In 2018, Isaiah graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a BFA in Musical Theatre Performance. Since graduation Isaiah has worked as both a choreographer and performer at Chicagoland theaters such as the Goodman Theatre, Paramount Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre and Metropolis Performing Arts Center. Isaiah is continuously inspired by the art of dance and the ability to shape stories through movement.
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Isaiah’s class is designed to be a dancer’s space to explore and create. After a proper Jazz/Ballet based warm up, Isaiah will provide a prompt in which dancers will participate in an across the floor exercise. The class combo will correlate with the same or similar prompt. Much like the Musical Theatre cannon, Isaiah's choreography ranges in style and genre, exploring a marriage between old and new vocabulary. Isaiah seeks to push back against preconceived notions of who dance belongs to, and instead create work for all people to inhabit the movement space.