Facilitation
Marion Ramirez
Marion Ramírez, MFA, DEP-SMTT is a Puerto Rican dance artist, immersed in the practice and pedagogy of somatics, collaborative art making and improvisational dance as a tool for experiencing bodily agency, empathy, and community building.
Marion holds a BFA from The Laban Center London, UK and an MFA from Temple University where she taught for 10 years, currently she is Assistant Professor at Denison University’s Dance Department.
Her recent artistic projects include:
Mareas- made in collaboration with Ojeya Cruz-Banks. It is an interdisciplinary performance with song, dance and projections and a live jazz band with music professors at Denison U. This piece has toured for two years to Barbados, New wave Festival, Richmond University, Antioch University, CADD Conference at Duke U. and The Weiner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH.
Cambios de Táctica- made in collaboration with Alejandra Martorell, is an intergenerational research project investigating choreographic work from experimental dance mentors Merian Soto, Viveca Vasquez and Petra Bravo. The performances were presented by Escuelita Phenomenal de Rompeforma at University of Puerto Rico, La goyco, and Teatro Victoria Espinosa in San Juan.
She is caracola’s founder and teaches family members of all ages. She does Somatic Movement Education and Therapy as a Dynamic Embodiment™ Practitioner and training in BodyMind Dancing™.
She has created community art works in Philadelphia as a choreographer for The Fathering Circle and director of multi-disciplinary project kNots and Nests, and as a former Movement and Spanish specialist at The Children’s Community School.
photo- Carlos Avendaño