Mar (she/her) is a Peruvian movement artist and filmmaker currently based in New York City. She is a 2024 Choreographer Fellow of the Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship at Jacob’s Pillow. Mar is in the final Semester of completing her MFA in Dance at Hunter College, where she also teaches as adjunct faculty.

Her choreographic work proposes a movement language grounded in the body as an archive of personal, ancestral, and cultural memory. She sees dance as a space for visceral expression and self-discovery. Her research is shaped by the non-verbal language passed down through the women in her family—marked by silence, devotion, and urgency. Drawing from gestures rooted in Catholic rituals and ecstatic practices, she reimagines them beyond their religious meaning. In the studio, she invites performers to connect with sensation and emotional memory, allowing the body’s inner knowledge to guide their movement and expand their physicality.

In 2025, her full-length piece Doves Don’t Fly at Night (quintet, 40 min) premiered at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn as part of her MFA thesis. Her solo Por Debajo de la Rodilla was featured in 2024 at the EstroGenius Festival at La MaMa Experimental Theatre and later performed at Arts On Site. In 2025, the solo was also presented at the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival.

Previously, Mar was selected for the 2023 Emerging Choreographer Series by Mare Nostrum Elements, where she created the duet Hey… in, here you will be safe, which premiered at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. That same year, she was selected for Devices, the choreographic mentorship program led by Doug Varone, through which she created Someone is Rocking You from Above, presented at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center.

As a filmmaker, her dance film Still (2024) has been selected and awarded at several international festivals, including the Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival (Canada), San Francisco Dance Film Festival (USA), and Insólito: Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástico (Peru). It was also a semi-finalist at the Mirada Corta Short Film Festival (Mexico).

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