Mar (she/her) is a Peruvian movement artist and filmmaker based in New York City. She holds an MFA in Dance from Hunter College, where she began teaching as an adjunct lecturer in 2024. Her work explores the body as an archive of personal, ancestral, and cultural memory, drawing from the nonverbal language passed down through her maternal lineage—gestures shaped by Catholic devotion, guilty fervor, and a need for Salvation.

In 2025, she was awarded the Shuster Award for Outstanding Master's Thesis for "Inherited Fervor: Maternal Archive," a choreographic and theoretical project that explores the body's capacity to access emotional and ancestral knowledge through sensation, pulse, and repetition. As a Reiki practitioner, she approaches choreography as a ritual practice grounded in energetic awareness. Her 40-minute thesis work, Doves Don't Fly at Night, also earned her the Outstanding Choreographer Award from the Hunter College Dance Department.

In 2024, Mar was selected as an Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellow at Jacob's Pillow. That same year, her solo Por Debajo de la Rodilla was featured in the EstroGenius Festival and later performed at Arts On Site. In 2025, the piece was presented at the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival. She was commissioned by Mare Nostrum Elements for the Emerging Choreographer Series, where she premiered Hey...in here, you will be safe at LPAC. She also participated in "Devices," a choreographic mentorship program led by Doug Varone, during which she developed and premiered Someone is Rocking You from Above at MMAC. In 2022, her duet Como es aquí es allá was presented at Gibney Theater.

Her films Una Hebra (2021), Las Que Habitan (2021), and Still (2024) have been selected and awarded at international screendance festivals, including the San Francisco Dance Film Festival (USA), Mirada Corta (Mexico), and Insólito (Peru). 

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