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Silvana Cardell

a dancer presses against the bare ground on all fours while another dancer stands barefoot on top of their back with the support of two others who hold her arms. They are wearing long-sleeved clothing in shades of grey, black and red. They are surrounded by trees and foliage. There are audience members in the foreground watching.
Photo: Michelle F Smith
  • Reviews

Embodying Human-Nature Interdependence

Caitlin Green

Dancers create a shelter that shape-shifts into tableaus of home.

Photo: Pablo Meninato
  • Reviews

Becoming Animals

Madeline Shuron

Whose lives count as lives? Cardell Dance Theater seeks to answer that question.

Photo: Bill Hebert
  • Interviews

Silvana Cardell Teams Up with Blanka Zizka at Wilma Theater

Jonathan Stein

tD interview reveals Cardell movement collaboration with Zizka at Wilma Theater.

Photo: Pablo Meninato
  • Reviews

United States of Urgency: Migrant Bodies on the Move

L. Graciella Maiolatesi

Cardell Dance Theater successfully illustrates immigrant journeys, simultaneously humanizing migrant bodies.

Photo: Bill Hebert
  • Reviews

Human Movement

Carolyn Merritt

Cardell showcases how dance can confront social issues viscerally, triggering responses that tap something as deep as migration is to our very existence.

Photo: Bill Hebert
  • Reviews

Moving Pictures: Cardell Dance Theater’s ‘Excerpts’

Carolyn Merritt

In "Ciudad Evita," Silvana Cardell’s knack for crafting a story and the dancers’ commitment to their characters bring the images to life.

Photo: Eun Jung Choi
  • Reviews

Cooking, Cake and Conversation at the LAB

Anna Drozdowski

The Live Arts Brewery (LAB) hosts an open showing each month to allow performing artists to receive immediate feedback.