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Becoming Hardware

Dance · Digital · Somatics · Wonder

How else might we experience being human?

Immersive worlds that awaken wonder and expand perception.

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Body as portal.

Technology as spell.

Performance as world.

The question

Reality is richer than habit allows.

Performance, digital art and somatics for altered perception.

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Zjana Muraro · dance artist · somatic researcher · digital choreographer

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“Has magnetic appeal. The alchemy on stage is engrossing.”

Jenny Gilbert, The Independent

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With Our Shadows

Interactive dance and projection presented at White Wave Dance Festival, Dixon Place in Chinatown.

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Live dance performance with projection and layered light

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Portals

A body of work unfolding through movement, technology, imagination and wonder.

Current project · In development · Dance / Neurodiversity / VR

Stranger

Currently in development

A new immersive work placing inclusivity, community and access at its heart.

15 neurodiverse Associate Artists Access All Areas Theatre Dance + VR research

Following a development through collaboration with 15 neurodiverse Associate Artists at Access All Areas Theatre (AAA) in East London, this new project places inclusivity, community and access at its heart.

Building on Dance & VR research, in which we found improved mood, confidence, autonomy and connection among these specific performers, we have been so inspired by our work with AAA.

Stranger draws audiences into a striking live world of movement, sound and interaction, inviting them to explore how technology and surveillance shape how we see ourselves, connect with others and move through contemporary society.

Using interactive environments, it will create accessible spaces where audiences can reflect, connect and participate on their own terms. Supported by residencies and mentoring, this R&D will lay the groundwork for an ambitious future contribution to England’s growing immersive arts sector.

Neurodiverse performer and collaborator beginning a virtual reality movement session for the Stranger project — Independent Dance Artist Zjana Muraro and Technologist James Russel, working with Associate Artists at Access All Areas Theatre in East London.

Body / Image / Glitch

Becoming Hardware, Pas de and digital body experiments.

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Motion / Tracking / AR

Moving Digits, Dancing Chaos and interactive motion systems.

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Somatics / Perception / VR

Unruly, embodied research and neurodiverse performance practice.

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Dance for Camera

Becoming Hardware

8 years ago Edited and performed by Zjana Muraro Music by Alex Paton March 2018 Uploaded 22 May 2018 · 10:41 #performance · #dance

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Glass on Glass

Dance for camera / reflective body study.

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Pas de (work in Progress, MaxMSP)

Max/MSP/Jitter dance for camera.

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Zjana Muraro and Rachel Tack dancing at Turner Contemporary Museum

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Zjana Muraro and Rachel Tack dance at Turner Contemporary Museum U.K. // 2016

Two performers, two solos, collaged together.

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R&D Zjana Muraro “Touching from a Distance” rehearsal footage April 2019

Research and development rehearsal footage.

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Moving Digits

Digital Technology, Dance & Choreographic Practices

15 international dance artists 4 projects 7 institutions

Labs and performative events with movement devices, digital tools and motion tracking in AR settings.

Tallinn · Madeira / 2019–2020

Visual archive

Bodies, worlds, glitches.

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Ideas & research

Ideas that move.

Dance, somatics, XR, AI, motion data, perception.

Unruly: VR, dance and somatic practice with neurodiverse performers Becoming Somewhere Digital Dancing Chaos with Augmented Reality Somatics, technology and new materialism Portable interactive motion data systems for choreographers

Work with Zjana

Work with Zjana.

Performance · residencies · talks · workshops · research.

Present

Performance / new work

Immersive dance, digital performance, live experiments.

Residency

Movement, XR, AI, somatics, perception.

Learning

Workshop / talk

Universities, festivals, labs and public events.

Research

Research conversation

Artists, technologists, researchers and institutions.

Zjana Muraro

Choreographer · Somatic Researcher · Digital Performance Artist

Creating embodied performance worlds across live performance, digital art and installation.

Services and Availability

Available for selected projects in:

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

For collaborations, professional enquiries and bookings:

ezvayana@gmail.com

About

Choreographer and interdisciplinary performance maker.

Zjana Muraro is a choreographer and interdisciplinary performance maker working across dance, digital art and installation.

Fusing classical dance and somatic practice with AI, biofeedback, motion tracking and immersive media, she creates visually distinctive performance worlds that bring hidden narratives and bodies in resistance into view. Her practice explores how bodies sense, remember and connect within social, political and technological systems.

Rather than treating the body as content for technology, Zjana uses embodied knowledge to question and transform digital environments. Emerging from experiences of in-betweenness, she creates spaces in which multiple identities, realities and ways of sensing can coexist.

Care, access, humour and collective experience are central to her process. She works collaboratively with performers, technologists, composers, researchers, producing partners and communities to develop work that is ethically grounded and responsive to context.

Selected experience

Performance and Presentation

Zjana’s work and performance practice have been presented internationally at Dixon Place in New York, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Mercat de les Flors during Barcelona’s Grec Festival, Oulu Museum of Art, Hong Kong Culture Centre, Suzanne Dellal Centre, Malta Society of Arts, Turner Contemporary, Roundhouse and The Place.

Her extensive performing career includes work with Hartford Ballet, Joffrey Ballet Ensemble, Vertigo Dance Company and Kiani Del Valle’s KVD Performance Group.

Her commercial performance credits include appearances alongside Shaggy, Chaka Khan, Jamelia and Sonic Youth. She has also collaborated with interactive-media artist Scott Snibbe and filmmaker Harmony Korine.

In development

Current Project

Stranger

Stranger is a new interdisciplinary performance project currently in independent research and development.

Wider practice

Cultural and Editorial Practice

Alongside her artistic work, Zjana contributes to community-led and critical conversations surrounding movement, bodily autonomy and collective action.

She has contributed to initiatives with Chisenhale Dance Space exploring dance’s role within contemporary protest cultures and politically charged public environments. Her wider practice considers movement as a form of resistance, resilience and shared agency.

Zjana is also an editorial assistant for the UK-based Journal of Dance and Somatic Practice, supporting research and discourse across dance, embodiment and somatic practice.

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