Conversations with Rosângela Silvestre and Steve Coleman

This article incorporates material from separate interviews with Rosângela Silvestre and Steve Coleman, two artists who have maintained common research interests and frequent collaboration over the last decade. Silvestre, a Brazilian dancer and choreographer who has incorporated “traditional” movement vocabularies into her experimental work, and Coleman, an innovative American musician whose work also defies categorization, both reflect on the technical mastery underlying improvisation, the blurry boundaries between movement and music-making, and the significance of gender in collaboration.