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MISSION

To understand the body as a vehicle for empathy and connection, by exploring the human agency of movement and expression.  

EXPLORE MY PROJECTS

Over the course of my 40-year career as a professional dancer, educator, researcher, and mentor, I have explored the body as the repository of desire, ancestral history, memory, and wisdom. Using a non-dualistic approach, body and mind are paired with movement science, somatic principles, empathy, and activism in all my physical, artistic and research practices.

I invite you to explore my projects below.

Simone Linhares Ferro Dance Workshops

MOVEMENT
WORKSHOPS

Movement is our native response to the world that surrounds us. It is a human experience filtered by our stored consciousness and cultures. Understanding one’s true inner potential translates into kinetic efficiency, wellbeing, and most important, joyful acceptance of who we are and where we stand in our multiple kinetic worlds. These are the anchors of my movement workshops.

PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITY  EXPRESSIONS

Communities are a network of powerful agency and identity. Understanding, interacting, and preserving their ownership are the hallmarks of our work.

Participatory Community Expressions
Somatic Research

SOMATIC RESEARCH

Inquiry resides in the curiosity of the individual to transcend themselves through a fearless investigation of diverse social worlds. 

Studying the world abroad

STUDYING THE WORLD ABROAD

Understanding yourself as a human being requires learning about others different than you. Since 2008, I have taken students to my native Brazil to learn the African Influences in the Brazilian Culture of the Northeast. Through this intensely rich experiential learning experience students reflect, analyze, and reshape their understandings of their contributions to the world as citizen artists.

"Ferro’s approach is collaborative. Her ensemble works drew out particular strengths of dancers and led Ferro to coherently develop and arrange the moves they brought to the table."

Tom Strini, Urban Milwaukee

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