NYFA - Get to know Ingrid Silva

Ingrid Silva is a Ballet Dancer from Dance Theatre of Harlem. She started out dancing at Dançando Para Não Dançar, a program based in a dozen of Rio's favelas that provides classical ballet training to kids and teens who could otherwise not afford dance classes. Later on, she danced with huge companies in Brazil such as Maria Olenewa and Deborah Colker. But if was in 2007 that she got into the Dance Theatre of Harlem's summer intensive, and went to New York to train. A year later at age 19, she went back to New York to join DTH's ensemble, and later went on to join the company.
Interview and editing: Karina Gaudereto
B-rolls from: beingpaowerful; Ingrid Silva; Dance Theatre of Harlem