Event

Mariana Valencia: Originators

Mariana Valencia premieres Originators over three performances, January 29th-31st at Abrons Art Center. Commissioned as part of ISSUE's Artist-In-Residence Program, Originators is a choreography and lecture shaped from the language of history and dance. This dense activation of content doesn't claim itself to a genre rather, Originators proposes a new space where blended mediums meet without a hierarchy of value. Originators is dependent on the collective experience to physically and spiritually lift each other up.

Mariana Valencia is a dance artist, whose work has been presented in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Massachusetts and Los Angeles. During 2014, Valencia was Artist in Residence at Chez Bushwick, New York Live Arts, Show Box L.A. and Pieter Pasd. Valencia's choreography and research have been supported by funds from the Yellow House Fund of the Tides Foundation from 2010-13 and she is a Jerome Travel and Study Grant fellow for 2014-16, Mariana has costumed for Jen Rosenblit, Vanessa Anspaugh, Geo Wyeth and Lauren Bakst. As a performer, she has collaborated with musician Jules Gimbrone, dance artists Kim Brandt and robbinschilds and video artists Elizabeth Orr and Kate Brandt. Valencia has a BA from Hampshire College in interdisciplinary performance.

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