Books By Mariana Valencia - Author

Mariana Valencia works through dance. She was born in Chicago amidst multicultural collaboration, went to college with a vast constellation of queers in Massachusetts, and in 2006 moved to New York to live as a choreographer. Over the years, Valencia's work has turned in on herself, making self-narrative performances that evoke algorithmic imagery comprised of choreography, ethnography, and memoir. Valencia has held numerous residencies and received awards for her choreography, the most notable being a 2023 Creative Capital Award, a 2018 Bessie Award for Outstanding "Breakout" Choreographer, a 2019 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Extended Life grant, a 2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists Award, and a 2015-16 Jerome Travel and Study grant; she was also an artist in the Whitney Biennial 2019. Valencia is a founding member of the No Total reading group and she has been the co-editor of Movement Research's Critical Correspondence. She's worked with artists AK Burns, Eliz