2016/17 Artist In Residence : Dance
Mariana Valencia is a Brooklyn based artist, her choreography has been presented in group shows at Dixon Place, Brazil, Roulette, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at the Judson Church, AUNTS and The Flea. Her performance/lectures have been presented at The New Museum, Communities of Practice, The New School, The Women and Performance Journal, Sunday Process Labs, Lec/Dem, and Ugly Duckling Presse. In New York, Valencia has held residencies at Chez Bushwick AIR (2013), New York Live Arts Studio Series (2013-14), AUNTScamp (2015), and ISSUE Project Room AIR (2015). Internationally, she has held creative residencies in Serbia and Macedonia. Valencia has performed with musician Jules Gimbrone; in videos by Elizabeth Orr, Kate Brandt, and AK Burns, and in dances by robbinschilds, Kim Brandt and MPA. Her projects in costume direction include works by Vanessa Anspaugh, Lauren Bakst and Juliana May. Valencia is a founding member of the No Total reading group, a sister of Artists Space Books and Talks, and she is a co-editor of Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence (2016-17). Valencia is a Jerome Travel and Study Grant recipient (2014-15), a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant recipient (2015), a Center for Performance Research Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Artist in Residence Program recipient (2014-15), and a Yellow House Fund of the Tides Foundation grant recipient (2010-13). Valencia holds a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA (2006) with a concentration in dance and ethnography.
Photo credit: Charlotte Curtis
