{"id":397,"date":"2018-07-24T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theatreanddance\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=397"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:32:28","slug":"marciano-silva-dos-santos","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/facultystaff\/marciano-silva-dos-santos\/","title":{"rendered":"Marciano Silva dos Santos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Originally from Brazil, <strong>Marciano Silva dos Santos<\/strong> studied theatre and dance at FAFI, a professional performing arts school in Vit\u00f3ria. His work in Brazil for three dance companies\u2014 Negra\u00d4, Bale da Ilha, and Homem Cia de Danca\u2014earned him international critical acclaim as a dancer and had a profound impact on his artistic trajectory. After being recognized by the American Folklore Society as a \u201cBrazilian folk artist of unique and exceptional ability,\u201d he moved to Minnesota, where he has worked with TU Dance, Stuart Pimsler Dance &amp; Theater, and in Penumbra Theatre\u2019s Black Nativity. He is also the founder of Contempo Physical Dance, a company known for its Afro-Brazilian contemporary dance fusion. Marciano is a dance teacher in the University of Minnesota\/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program and has taught master classes and residencies throughout the United States and Brazil.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":398,"template":"","class_list":["post-397","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8127,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/397\/revisions\/8127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}