Mar Valyra

Researcher in contemporary body arts, her work moves between theoretical critique, choreography, and poetic creation. She has directed and participated in artistic residencies in national centres such as Naves Matadero, Conde Duque, and Teatros del Canal; and international ones like Festival B.Motion 2018 (Venice) or Tanzkongress 2019 (Dresden). She collaborates with Arca, Neurodungeon, and Post-Organic Bauplan, and is part of the Mitrilo collective for experimental digital performing arts. Ballarín teaches dance and musical language at the Escuela Municipal de Música y Danza María Dolores Pradera (Madrid). She coordinated and co-wrote the text book Historia de la danza III: Danzas Urbanas (History of Dance 3: Urban Dances, Mahali, 2019). Her publications include ‘Mañana, y mañana, y mañana’ on Ligia Lewis’ Deader than Dead (Teatron, 2022); ‘Proteo acariciade’, on Paul B. Preciado’s Yo soy el monstruo que os habla (Can the Monster Speak? Teatron, 2023); ‘A Cataphoric Withness’, together with Víctor Aguado, in volume 1 of Party Studies (Errant Bodies Press, Berlin, 2021) and ‘Ocupares: desestar un mal cómo’ (Los nombres del miedo – The Names of Fear – , Intermediae), an aesthetic and legal critique of the practices of anti-squatting (‘desokupa’) companies.