Artists and Curators Talks with Mariana Valencia
Artists and Curators Talks with Mariana Valencia
Topic Tags: self-representation performance presence social dance modality of communication
- Performance as modality of communication
- Transmission, relation, proximity, blending in performance
- Self-representation and its idiosyncracies
- Each performance is made from the frayed edges of the last
- What is my thesis for this performance and how can I make it as visible as possible?
- Social dance as a way to create an angle in the argument, to punctuate the movement
- How do I use the page as a stage? How do I make poetic texts exist as their own body of work? How do I make this text a body?
- What if dances have an index of ingredients?
- Main parts of performance:
intention, presence and showing up for each other
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Mariana Valencia is a New York-based choreographer and performer. Her work has been presented by the Danspace Project, American Realness, AUNTS, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Performance Space, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (OR), The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (DC), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and internationally in England, Norway, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Valencia is a Whitney Biennial artist (2019), a Bessie Award recipient for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer (2018), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award to Artists grant recipient (2018), a Jerome Travel and Study Grant fellow (2014-15), and a Movement Research GPS/Global Practice Sharing artist (2016/17). She is a founding member of the No Total reading group, and she co-editor of Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence (2016-17). She has held residencies at Chez Bushwick, New York Live Arts, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research, and at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (OR). In 2019, she published two books of performance texts titled "Album" (Wendy's Subway) and "Mariana Valencia's Bouquet" (3 Hole Press). Valencia holds a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA (2006), with a focus on dance and ethnography.
www.marianavalencia.work
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