Our Faculty
The Danceversity Faculty represents a diverse blend of professional artists and
instructors who are accomplished performers, well-known in their respective
communities, and wherever possible, native to the communities they represent.

 

Renata was born in Brazil where she began her formal dance training with folk, modern and ballet, performing as a young child in the prestigious Teatro Municipal de São Paulo in the 1980s and in the Ballet Company of Paula Castro Dance School in São Paulo. After graduating in Engineering, she traveled to Bolivia to learn about traditional communities living in sustainable ways in the Andean rural areas. During her stay in the Shamanic Community Janajpacha in Cochabamaba she was inspired by the traditional dances and participated into the cultural project involving the recovery of traditional Andean dances from Bolivia and Peru. For two years she performed and toured around many Latin American countries, including Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela and Mexico (where she had six months training in Aztec Dances), appearing on TV programs and performed in public theaters.