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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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Artist profile

Reality is richer than habit allows.

Performance, dance for camera, digital art and somatics for altered perception.

PracticeChoreographer · Somatic Researcher · Digital Performance Artist

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

Available forCommissions, producing partnerships and artistic collaborations.

Press

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

Jenny Gilbert, The Independent

“An experience full and complete. Remarkable.”

Cathy Culver, Voice Magazine

“A wonderful mix of fluidity and strength.”

iDance, NYC

Current development · Seeking partners · 2026

Lowlifes

An immersive performance exploring grief, death, love and the relationships we build with ourselves, one another and the environment.

Zjana’s role · Choreographer and project artist Immersive performance Dance + somatics Sound + responsive media

Through dance, somatics, sound and responsive digital environments, Lowlifes is developing a sensorial space for reflection, connection and shared encounter.

Learning from the 2021 Stranger dance-and-VR research informs its methodology, access approach and audience experience.

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Abstract digital forest with a metallic figure, used as a concept image for Lowlifes — **Concept image:** the evolving visual world of *Lowlifes*. Production imagery will follow the next R&D phase.

Selected 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

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Available for selected screenings and new screen commissions. Full viewing links are shared with programmers, curators and collaborators on request.

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Work

Available work and research.

Available for presentation

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 and project archive

Moving Digits motion tracking and augmented reality research

Research · Prototypes · Documentation

Earlier research and projects

Documentation and context from projects that are not presented as current touring productions.

Stranger Moving Digits Touching from a Distance

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Portals

Three clear routes through the practice, organised by how each work is encountered: on screen, live and interactive, or immersive and research-led.

Portal 01 · Screen

Dance for Camera

Body / image / glitch

Choreography created through filming, framing, editing and digital image-processing.

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Portal 02 · Live + interactive

Live / Interactive Systems

Movement / tracking / projection

Performance using projection, motion tracking and responsive digital media.

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Zjana Muraro beside an Access All Areas Associate Artist wearing a VR headset during Stranger research

Portal 03 · Immersive + research

Immersive / Somatics / XR

Perception / access / otherness

Embodied research across immersive environments, VR, perception and accessible practice.

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Research and project archive

Bodies, worlds, glitches.

Documentation, prototypes and lines of enquiry from Zjana’s evolving practice.

Live performance / collective body / interactive projection

Lowlifes concept image / digital environment

Performer moving through pink projected light with an enlarged shadow — Movement and coloured light / projection study

Zjana Muraro in the sculptural Becoming Hardware performance costume — Becoming Hardware / sculptural body study

Zjana Muraro performing outdoors beside industrial architecture — Open-air movement study

Close-up performance image exploring contact, shadow and bodily proximity — Close contact / shadow

Zjana Muraro suspended in a classical dance leap against a black background — Classical line / flight

Stranger research Moving Digits case Touching from a Distance case

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

Zjana Muraro moving behind translucent material

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.

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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.”

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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