Silvestre was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and was brought up in Germany. At 19 he started his full-time dance training at the College for Performing Arts in Frankfurt. He came to London in 2001 to study at London Studio Centre for one year before joining EDge, the postgraduate performing group of London Contemporary Dance School. With EDge he danced in works by Trisha Brown, Vanessa Haska, Kerry Nicholls and Ben Wright. He joined Richard Alston Dance Company in autumn 2004 and danced with English National Ballet in the 2005 production of Romeo and Juliet.