Maira Duarte
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Maira Duarte is a NYC-based Mexican dance artist, organizer, curator, educator, performer, and film-maker. Maira's work explores internalized social constructs and the body’s relationship to nature, with a focus on the impact of global capitalism on social and environmental injustice, and upon the production and presentation of art. Her work has been shown at Movement Research at Judson Church (NYC), Performática (Cholula, Mexico), and Huerto Roma Verde (Mexico City), among others. She performs with Alex Romania, Justin Cabrillos, and Estado Flotante. She is faculty and member of the Racial Equity Professional Development Cohort at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and was formerly a dance professor at the University of The Americas Puebla. She’s received support from the Mexican Fund for Arts and Culture (2010), CUNY Dance Initiative (2014-16), and NALAC (2017). She is a contributor to the online publication Dancer Citizen and holds an M.A. in Dance Education from New York University. Her film “The Scientist Search” (and in Spanish "La Búsqueda Natural") about a biological expedition in the Peruvian Amazon, was supported by and in view at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
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Projects with DTTP
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Choreography: The Tampon Piece (2018), #alloftheabove (2016, 2018), Untitled Solo (2017), Narrentanz (2015)
Class: Technique and Improvisation |