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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

Choreographer · Somatic Researcher · Performance Maker

Creating embodied encounters with technology, identity and otherness that shift how bodies are sensed, seen and understood.

Open to commissions, producing partnerships and artistic collaborations.

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

Jenny Gilbert, The Independent

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Sold out · New York City · 2025

With Our Shadows

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

Performance still from the work.

Live dance performance with projection and layered light

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.

Zjana is seeking co-commissioners, producing partners and research collaborators for the project’s next phase of R&D, production and presentation.

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Zjana Muraro beside an Access All Areas Associate Artist wearing a VR headset during a somatics and dance workshop — **Image description:** Independent Dance Artist Zjana Muraro working with one of the Associate Artists wearing a VR headset during a somatics and dance workshop at Access All Areas Theatre in East London.

Body / Image / Glitch

Becoming Hardware, Pas de and digital body experiments.

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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CREATIVE EUROPE-FUNDED INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT

Moving Digits

Digital Technology, Dance & Choreographic Practices

Zjana’s role Participating Artist

15 international artists 4 projects 7 institutions

Zjana participated as an international artist in Moving Digits, a Creative Europe-funded programme bringing together artists and institutions through collaborative, practice-based exploration.

Across project labs and artistic development sessions, she worked with movement devices, digital tools, motion tracking and augmented reality, exploring their relationship to choreography, embodiment and contemporary performance.

Her involvement formed part of a wider European exchange connecting dance, technology and evolving choreographic practices.

Tallinn · Madeira / 2019–2020

Visual archive

Bodies, worlds, glitches.

Live performance / collective body / interactive projection

Work with Zjana

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 peer-reviewed research

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 creates live and immersive performance across choreography, digital art and installation.

Her practice brings together classical and contemporary dance, somatic research, performance studies and computational arts. She codes and builds interactive systems with motion tracking and real-time media, using embodied knowledge not as content for technology but as a means of questioning and reshaping digital environments.

Her visually distinctive performance worlds bring hidden narratives and bodies in resistance into view. Movement, sound and responsive media transform one another, inviting audiences to experience bodies, identities and collective life from unfamiliar perspectives.

Emerging from experiences of in-betweenness, her work asks how bodies sense, remember and connect within social, political and technological systems. Care, access and collaboration are central to her process, which brings together performers, technologists, composers, researchers and communities.

In 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.”

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 an evolving immersive work about surveillance, identity and the experience of being read by others. Zjana is looking for partners who want to support its next phase of research, development and public encounter.

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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