Marcos Duran

Background

About Marcos Duran

Marcos Duran (he, him) recently completed his self-portrait short dance film, “Best To Move,” as well as “Guardians of Water,” a short featuring Donal Hord’s 1939 sculpture at San Diego County Waterfront Park. In 2022 he toured an evening length solo, “Shapeshifter,” which was commissioned by Strand Theater for a debut at Center for Maine Contemporary Art; his signature solo “Exit to Wonderland” was invited to Visionary Dance Theater’s Zen Festival, as well as in SD Dance Theater’s WOW Festival show. In 2021 Marcos’ short film, “Minced,” won the Best Performances award at the LA Experimental Film Festival after premiering in Disco Riot’s “A Year of DisDance” Film Festival, and he was commissioned by Malashock Dance to make a new work, “Neck, Knife,” for a production at the SD Mingei Museum. His art writing was published in HereIn, a journal for San Diego’s artists and writers, in addition to being featured in SD Voyager Magazine. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, Marcos was in the final days of completing his MFA in Dance Theatre at UC San Diego. He took refuge in creating “Acts of Togetherness,” a social media series that cultivated international, digital dance collaborations. As a graduate recipient of the San Diego Fellowship at UC San Diego, he made three works between 2017-2020 that culminated 15 years of choreography. “Heel, Skull” (60 min), “The Rules of the Game” (25 min), and his thesis work, “The Underground” (95 min), all premiered at La Jolla Playhouse theater district. They exhibited accounts of social choreography, craniosacral audience integration, and transdisciplinary collaborations between visual arts, music, technology, and theater. A New Yorker from 2008-2017, he directed and performed in Marcos Duran Performance Group. He was invited to share his work at Movement Research at The Judson Church, Dixon Place, La MaMa Experimental Theater, Theater for the New City, 92nd St Y, Center for Performance Research, Triskelion Arts, and Green Space among many other site specific spaces. From 2005-2008, he created and shared work in Santa Barbara, San Diego, and San Francisco.