Zjana Muraro

Dance Artist | Choreographer | Performer | Researcher

Based in the UK | International Practice

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Artist Profile

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Zjana Muraro is an independent dance artist and choreographer working at the intersection of contemporary dance, somatic practice, and digital and computational arts. Her work explores embodiment, technology, wellbeing, and more-than-human perspectives through performance, installation, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Current Academic Appointments​

Lecturer in Dance – De Montfort University
Oct 2025 – Present

Teaching Contemporary Ballet, Contemporary Dance Partnering, and Choreography; supervising Personal Projects; module leadership and curriculum development for the Healthy Dance Practitioner. Collaborating across dance and digital technologies.

 

Lecturer in Dance – Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Jul 2024 – Present

Teaching contemporary dance technique, choreography, and performance across BA (Hons), MA, Foundations, and CAT programmes.

 

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Artistic Practice

Independent Dancer & Maker

Aug 2016 – Present

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Creation and presentation of original choreographic works for stage, gallery, and digital contexts. Works presented internationally at venues and festivals including Grec Festival and Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), Oulu Museum of Art (Finland), Turner Contemporary (UK), Complesso Monumentale di Santa Sofia (Italy), The Place, Laban Theatre, Stone Nest, Space Studios, Roundhouse (London), Tribeca Performing Arts Center (New York), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Boston Opera House, Chinnaswamy Stadium (Bangalore), and the Suzanne Dellal Center and Gerard Behar Centre (Tel Aviv-Jaffa).

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As a performer, has worked across classical and contemporary dance with companies including Hartford Ballet, Joffrey Ballet Ensemble, and Cleveland Repertory Project, and performed works by and with choreographers such as Alonzo King, Mats Ek, Doug Varone, Bebe Miller, Danna Uchizono, David Gordon, David Zambrano, Noa Wertheim, and Roy Assaf.

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Commercial and cross-disciplinary collaborations include performances with Shaggy, Chaka Khan, Jamelia, Sonic Youth, Scott Snibbe, and film director Harmony Korine.

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Selected Commissions, Presentations & Platforms

• Grec Festival – Barcelona, Spain

• Mercat de les Flors – Barcelona, Spain

• Oulu Museum of Art – Finland

• Turner Contemporary – UK

• Complesso Monumentale di Santa Sofia – Italy

• The Place – London, UK

• Stone Nest, London, UK

• Roundhouse – London, UK

• REDCAT – Los Angeles, USA

• Tribeca Performing Arts Center – New York, USA

• Suzanne Dellal Center – Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel

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Research-Led & Digital Practice

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Artistic research focusing on somatics, motion capture, augmented and immersive performance, and embodied interaction with digital systems. Creation for XR, interactive installations, and performance environments integrating movement, sound, and computational processes.

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Publications & Artistic Research Outputs

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• Becoming Somewhere Digital – TTT2023 Malta Arts Show (2024)

• Soma-theque: Somatics, Technology and New Materialism – Coventry University (2023)

• Dancing Chaos with Augmented Reality – DRHA Conference, Kingston University (2022)

• Somatics for the Digital Space – Perspectives in Public Health UK (2022)

• Narratives of Displacement: A Case for Wild Thought – Università di Chieti-Pescara (2021)

• Portable Interactive Explorations of Motion Data Systems for Choreographers – Rutgers University (2020)

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Education

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MA Performance Studies – New York University (2015)

PGDip Computational Arts – Goldsmiths, University of London (2017–2018): Motion capture, interactive performance, C++, OpenFrameworks, Machine Learning, Computer Vision.

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Funding & Support

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Artistic work supported by Arts Council England, European Cultural Foundation, Compagnia di San Paolo, East London Dance, and UAL College of Fashion.

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