Available for presentation
Live performance · Interactive projection
With Our Shadows
Interactive dance and projection, presented to a sold-out audience at White Wave Dance Festival in New York City.
Zjana’s role Choreographer and performer
Dance · Digital · Somatics · Wonder
How else might we experience being human?
Immersive worlds that awaken wonder and expand perception.
Body as portal.
Technology as spell.
Performance as world.
The question
Reality is richer than habit allows.
Performance, digital art and somatics for altered perception.
Zjana Muraro
Choreographer · Somatic Researcher · Performance Maker
Creating embodied encounters with technology, identity and otherness that shift how bodies are sensed, seen and understood.
Open to commissions, producing partnerships and artistic collaborations.
Press
“Has magnetic appeal. The alchemy on stage is engrossing.”Jenny Gilbert, The Independent
“An experience full and complete. Remarkable.”Cathy Culver, Voice Magazine
“A wonderful mix of fluidity and strength.”iDance, NYC
Work by status
What can be presented, developed or explored.
A professional route through current productions, partnership opportunities and archived research.
In development / seeking partners
Immersive performance · Dance · VR
Stranger
An evolving work about surveillance, identity and the experience of being read by others.
Zjana’s role Choreographer and project artist
Screen and research archive
Screen · Research · Prototypes
Earlier work and research
Moving Digits, Becoming Hardware and selected research are presented as documentation and context—not as current touring productions.
Available for presentation Recent work
With Our Shadows
Interactive dance and projection presented at White Wave Dance Festival, Dixon Place in Chinatown.
Zjana’s role: Choreographer and performer
How it works: Animated and interactive projection extends the live choreography, allowing bodies, shadows and digital images to share the performance space.
Performance still from the work.
Current project · In development · Dance / Neurodiversity / VR
Stranger
Currently in development
A new immersive work placing inclusivity, community and access at its heart.
Zjana’s role · Choreographer and project artist 15 neurodiverse Associate Artists Access All Areas Theatre Dance + VR research
Following a development through collaboration with 15 neurodiverse Associate Artists at Access All Areas Theatre (AAA) in East London, this new project places inclusivity, community and access at its heart.
Building on Dance & VR research, in which we found improved mood, confidence, autonomy and connection among these specific performers, we have been so inspired by our work with AAA.
Stranger draws audiences into a striking live world of movement, sound and interaction, inviting them to explore how technology and surveillance shape how we see ourselves, connect with others and move through contemporary society.
Using interactive environments, it will create accessible spaces where audiences can reflect, connect and participate on their own terms. Supported by residencies and mentoring, this R&D will lay the groundwork for an ambitious future contribution to England’s growing immersive arts sector.
StatusIn development
FormatImmersive live performance / participatory R&D
Current opportunityResidency, co-commissioning and research partnerships
Production detailScale and technical specification developed with partners
Explore the practice
Portals
A secondary, intuitive route through the themes connecting Zjana’s performance, screen and research practice.
Motion / Tracking / AR
Moving Digits, Dancing Chaos and interactive motion systems.
Enter this portal
Somatics / Perception / VR
Unruly, embodied research and neurodiverse performance practice.
Read ideasScreen and research archive
Documentation, prototypes and lines of enquiry.
Earlier screen work and research remain available as context for Zjana’s evolving practice. Archive material is clearly distinguished from current touring and development projects.
CREATIVE EUROPE-FUNDED INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT
Moving Digits
Digital Technology, Dance & Choreographic Practices
Zjana’s role Participating Artist
15 international artists 4 projects 7 institutions
Zjana participated as an international artist in Moving Digits, a Creative Europe-funded programme bringing together artists and institutions through collaborative, practice-based exploration.
Across project labs and artistic development sessions, she worked with movement devices, digital tools, motion tracking and augmented reality, exploring their relationship to choreography, embodiment and contemporary performance.
Her involvement formed part of a wider European exchange connecting dance, technology and evolving choreographic practices.
Tallinn · Madeira / 2019–2020
Visual archive
Bodies, worlds, glitches.
Peer-reviewed research. Creative innovation.
Ideas that move.
An artist-research practice spanning dance, somatics, and emerging technology, opening new possibilities for performance, choreography, and embodied experience.
Selected peer-reviewed research
Unruly: VR, dance and somatic practice with neurodiverse performers Becoming Somewhere Digital Dancing Chaos with Augmented Reality Somatics, technology and new materialism Portable interactive motion data systems for choreographers
Work with Zjana
Work with Zjana.
Performance · residencies · talks · workshops · research.
Present
Performance / new work
Immersive dance, digital performance, live experiments.
ResidencyResidency
Movement, XR, AI, somatics, perception.
LearningWorkshop / talk
Universities, festivals, labs and public events.
ResearchResearch conversation
Artists, technologists, researchers and institutions.
Zjana Muraro
Choreographer · Somatic Researcher · Digital Performance Artist
Creating embodied performance worlds across live performance, digital art and installation.
Services and Availability
Available for selected projects in:
Movement direction Choreographic development Interdisciplinary research and development Somatic and choreographic workshops Creative-technology consultation Live, screen, installation and immersive projects
Currently working across
New York · London · Sofia
For collaborations, professional enquiries and bookings:
About
Choreographer and interdisciplinary performance maker.
Zjana Muraro creates live and immersive performance across choreography, digital art and installation.
Her practice brings together classical and contemporary dance, somatic research, performance studies and computational arts. She codes and builds interactive systems with motion tracking and real-time media, using embodied knowledge not as content for technology but as a means of questioning and reshaping digital environments.
Her visually distinctive performance worlds bring hidden narratives and bodies in resistance into view. Movement, sound and responsive media transform one another, inviting audiences to experience bodies, identities and collective life from unfamiliar perspectives.
Emerging from experiences of in-betweenness, her work asks how bodies sense, remember and connect within social, political and technological systems. Care, access and collaboration are central to her process, which brings together performers, technologists, composers, researchers and communities.
In her own words
Artistic Statement
“I love physics and books, solving mysteries, and keeping secrets. I sometimes work alone and sometimes collectively with others, in dialogue with humans and non-humans. Somewhere in between dreaming up ideas and experimenting in the studio, on stages or in galleries, I bring what I can to touch those with me in the past, present, and future and see what might emerge in the space between us.”
Selected experience
Performance and Presentation
Zjana’s work and performance practice have been presented internationally at Dixon Place in New York, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Mercat de les Flors during Barcelona’s Grec Festival, Oulu Museum of Art, Hong Kong Culture Centre, Suzanne Dellal Centre, Malta Society of Arts, Turner Contemporary, Roundhouse and The Place.
Her extensive performing career includes work with Hartford Ballet, Joffrey Ballet Ensemble, Vertigo Dance Company and Kiani Del Valle’s KVD Performance Group.
Her commercial performance credits include appearances alongside Shaggy, Chaka Khan, Jamelia and Sonic Youth. She has also collaborated with interactive-media artist Scott Snibbe and filmmaker Harmony Korine.
In development
Current Project
Stranger
Stranger is an evolving immersive work about surveillance, identity and the experience of being read by others. Zjana is looking for partners who want to support its next phase of research, development and public encounter.
Wider practice
Cultural and Editorial Practice
Alongside her artistic work, Zjana contributes to community-led and critical conversations surrounding movement, bodily autonomy and collective action.
She has contributed to initiatives with Chisenhale Dance Space exploring dance’s role within contemporary protest cultures and politically charged public environments. Her wider practice considers movement as a form of resistance, resilience and shared agency.
Zjana is also an editorial assistant for the UK-based Journal of Dance and Somatic Practice, supporting research and discourse across dance, embodiment and somatic practice.
Selected delivery record
Relationships made visible.
Presentation, research and development experience across performance venues, festivals, museums and international programmes.
Presented
With Our Shadows
White Wave Dance Festival · Dixon Place
Sold-out New York City presentation in 2025, bringing interactive projection and live dance into a festival context.
Developed with
Stranger
Access All Areas Theatre
Dance, somatics and VR research developed through workshops with 15 neurodiverse Associate Artists in East London.
International research
Moving Digits
Creative Europe-funded programme
Zjana participated in a collaborative exchange involving 15 international artists, four projects and seven institutions.
Selected professional and funding relationships
Mailing list
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Performances, workshops, research notes and strange digital worlds.
Contact
Let’s build.
Create · present · teach · speak · research.