Portal 01 · Screen
Dance for Camera
Body / image / glitch
Choreography created through filming, framing, editing and digital image-processing.
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Dance · Digital · Somatics · Wonder
How else might we experience being human?
Immersive worlds that awaken wonder and expand perception.
Artist profile
Reality is richer than habit allows.
Zjana creates immersive choreographic experiences using dance, somatics, and responsive technology.
Practice Choreographer · Somatic Researcher · Digital Performance Artist
Her work builds shifting worlds where movement, sensation, technology, and audiences come together in unexpected ways.
Available for Commissions, producing partnerships and artistic collaborations.
Press
“Has magnetic appeal. The alchemy onstage is engrossing.”Cath Carver, The Place · Set Sail review
“An experience, full and complete. Remarkable.”Jenny Gilbert, The Place · Set Sail review
“A wonderful mix of fluidity and strength.”iDance, NYC
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Portals
New to Zjana’s work? Start with the form most relevant to you: screen, live and interactive, or immersive and research-led.
Portal 02 · Live + interactive
Live / Interactive Systems
Movement / tracking / projection
Performance using projection, motion tracking and responsive digital media.
Explore live workPortal 03 · Immersive + research
Immersive / Somatics / XR
Perception / access / otherness
Embodied research across immersive environments, VR, perception and accessible practice.
Explore immersive researchSelected screen work
Dance for Camera
Choreography created through and for the moving image. Framing, editing, duration and the camera’s gaze become choreographic materials.
Dance film · Max/MSP/Jitter
Pas De
A screen work in which performance and digital editing reshape the body through a Max/MSP/Jitter image system.
Zjana’s role Performer and editor
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Dance film · Reflective body study
Glass on Glass
Film made in collaboration with Reynir Hutber, exploring reflection, surface and the camera’s encounter with the dancing body.
Zjana’s role Dancer and collaborating artist
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Dance film · Digital image
Becoming Hardware
A dance-for-camera work exploring how the performing body is fragmented, reframed and transformed through digital image-making.
Zjana’s role Editor and performer
Explore the filmAvailable for selected screenings and new screen commissions. Full viewing links are shared with programmers, curators and collaborators on request.
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Available work and research.
In development · Seeking partners
Immersive performance · Dance · Somatics
Lowlifes
An immersive performance exploring grief, death, love and the relationships we build with ourselves, one another and the environment.
Partnership opportunity Co-commissioning, producing, residencies, access development and research.
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Live performance · Interactive projection
With Our Shadows
Interactive dance and projection, presented to a sold-out audience at White Wave Dance Festival in New York City.
Zjana’s role Choreographer and performer
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Research · Prototypes · Documentation
Earlier research and projects
Documentation and context from projects that are not presented as current touring productions.
Research and project archive
Bodies, worlds, glitches.
Documentation, prototypes and lines of enquiry from Zjana’s evolving practice.
Peer-reviewed research. Creative innovation.
Ideas that move.
An artist-research practice spanning dance, somatics, and emerging technology, opening new possibilities for performance, choreography, and embodied experience.
Selected publications and artistic research
About
Choreographer and interdisciplinary performance maker.
Zjana Muraro creates live and immersive performance, dance for camera, digital art and installation. Her practice brings together dance, somatic research, performance studies and computational arts. She codes and builds interactive systems with motion tracking and real-time media, using embodied knowledge to question and reshape digital environments. Care, access and collaboration guide work that asks how bodies sense, remember and connect within social, political and technological systems.
Read the full biographyIn her own words
Artistic Statement
“I love physics and books, solving mysteries, and keeping secrets. I sometimes work alone and sometimes collectively with others, in dialogue with humans and non-humans. Somewhere in between dreaming up ideas and experimenting in the studio, on stages or in galleries, I bring what I can to touch those with me in the past, present, and future and see what might emerge in the space between us.”
Work with Zjana
Commission, present or develop new work.
Performance · residencies · talks · workshops · interdisciplinary R&D.
Movement direction Choreographic development Interdisciplinary research and development Somatic and choreographic workshops Creative-technology consultation Live, screen, installation and immersive projects
Currently working across
New York · London · Sofia
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Performances, workshops, research notes and strange digital worlds.