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Jun 08, 1954 69 years old
Puerto Rican artist
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About Merián Soto
- Merián Soto (born June 8, 1954, Puerto Rico) is a choreographer and performance artist.
- Soto is best known for her interdisciplinary solo, group and collaborative works that explore and reflect upon the legacy of colonialism and Latino heritage, history and culture.
- Simply, Soto creates choreographic works that intertwine improvisational movements and post-modern structures she calls “energy modes”.
- By means of her choreography that accesses the personal history of Puerto Ricans, expresses the experiences of Puerto Ricans, and elicits the cultural memory of Puerto Ricans, Soto attempts to “blur the line between “real” life everyday/commonplace movement/dance/performance and staged/”artistic” dance and performance.”Soto earned a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University and she received a Masters of Arts in Dance Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
- Soto has also studied Kinetic Awareness and Improvisation and Body and Mind movements, which influenced her work.
- Likewise, she has studied and practiced Yoga since 1986. Soto is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including an Artist Fellowship (Gregory Millard Fellow) from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1998; the New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie Awards) in 2000 and the Greater Philadelphia Dance and Physical Theater Award (ROCKY) in 2008 for the One Year in Wissahickon Park Project.
- In 2015 she received a fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage recognizing her 40-year career in dance performance, focusing on the body's relationship to consciousness and creating “a dance of the future, a dance of healing, transformation, and transcendence.”Merián Soto currently resides in Philadelphia where she is an Associate Professor and the MFA Coordinator of the Department of Dance at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University.
