
Yanira Castro
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Yanira Castro is an interdisciplinary artist born in Puerto Rico, living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn), and working at the intersection of performance, installation, communal practices and interactive technology. She forms iterative, multimodal projects that center land, citizenship and governance in works activated and performed by the public. Directing a team of collaborators under the name, a canary torsi, she investigates performance as a practice of collective embodiment, grounding Puerto Rican experience as group experience, engaging audiences in acts of resistance and cooperation.
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Castro’s work has been presented nationally at The Chocolate Factory Theater (Queens, NY), New York Live Arts, Museum Contemporary Art Chicago, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy, NY), Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (Portland, OR), The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, ODC Theater (San Francisco, CA), The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn, NY), and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Her work has recently been supported by Creative Capital, The MAP Fund, The Alpert Award, and by NYSCA/NYFA Interdisciplinary and Choreography Fellowships. She has recently been a Fellow and Artist-in-Residence at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, MacDowell, Yaddo, LMCC and Marble House Project. Castro is the recipient of two New York Dance & Performance (aka Bessie) Awards for Outstanding Production.
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Yanira Castro on Exploring Memories Toward Collective Freedom (2024)
The Latinx Project | Article
In Yanira Castro’s ‘Exorcism = Liberation,’ the body is land - By Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone (2024)
All Arts | Article
A review of Yanira Castro’s "STAGE" performance
culturebot | review