Mariana Valencia's process as a choreographer and performer compounds dance and text, and her subjects are both marginal and popular. By juxtaposing humor and gravity, speech and movement, song and silence, she creates performances that enable the audience to learn about themselves as they learn about her. Her work has been commissioned by Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, The Whitney Museum, The Shed, The Public Theater, and Performance Space New York.  She has toured nationally and internationally in England, Norway, Macedonia and Serbia. In 2019, she published two books of performance texts, "Album" (Wendy's Subway) and "Mariana Valencia's Bouquet" (3 Hole Press); she's a founding member of the No Total reading group and has been the co-editor of Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence (2016-17). She has received a Bessie Award for Outstanding "Breakout" Choreographer (2018), is a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award to Artists grant recipient (2018), a Jerome Travel and Study Grant fellow (2014-15), and was a Whitney Biennial artist (2019). Her performance collaborations include works by Jules Gimbrone, Elizabeth Orr, Kate Brandt, Kim Brant, AK Burns, Guadalupe Rosales, Juliana May, Em Rooney, robbinschilds, Kim Brandt, Morgan Bassichis, Fia Backstrom and MPA. She received her BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA (2006) with a concentration in dance and ethnography.

Organized by Neil Greenberg.

This event is part of PERFORMANCE IN THE AGE OF PANDEMIC, a virtual, public-facing event series exploring the context of the radical reorganization of life under the current COVID-19 pandemic and other health crises such as the AIDS and 1918 influenza pandemics. Guest artists, curators, activists and scholars will consider how performing artists have responded to and been affected by these worldwide epidemics, the varied forms and functions of the work created during these times, and potential longer term changes that may result, while also making space to consider the state of arts presenting institutions and infrastructure in the wake of COVID-19. Hosted by faculty from the Department of the Arts at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. All events are free and open to the public, but prior registration is required.

Zoom link will be sent in advance of the event.