Meet Our Teaching Artists
Sylvia Soumah
Sylvia, an Inspired Child Teaching Artist since 1995, has been dancing and teaching African dance in Washington since 1992. She is Founder and Director of Coyaba Dance Theater, D.C.’s critically acclaimed & award-winning African Dance company. Sylvia’s extensive West African Dance experience has lead her to tour with some of the best artists of the National Ballet of the Republic of Guinea. Coyaba Dance Theater performs Outreach/Inreach dance and drumming workshops for the Dance Place, Smithsonian, Washington Performing Arts Society, The Concoran Gallery of Art and The Washington Ballet at the Arc. Ms. Soumah studied Modern Dance and Early Childhood Education at the University of Cincinnati.