Yanira Castro

Yanira Castro is an interdisciplinary artist born in Borikén (Puerto Rico) and living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). Castro forms iterative, multimodal projects that center the complexity of land, citizenship, and governance in works activated and performed by the public. Co-creating with a team of collaborators under the name, a canary torsi, she investigates choreography as a practice of collective embodiment, grappling with agency and communal action as a body politic. She has developed over fifteen projects including installations, performance manuals, podcasts, video works, and performances at MCA/Chicago, ICA/Boston, ODC in San Francisco, Bates Dance Festival, and venues in NYC including NY Live Arts, Abrons Arts Center, Danspace Project, LMCC's River to River, The Invisible Dog Art Center, and The Chocolate Factory Theater.

Photo credits:

Image with Yellow Background: Josefina SantosRemaining Images: Simon Courchel

She has been recognized with national awards and commissions including Creative Capital, Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for Dance, NYSCA/NYFA Interdisciplinary Artist and Choreography Fellowships, NEFA's National Dance Project, and two Bessie Awards for Outstanding Production. She has recently been in residence at LMCC, MacDowell, Yaddo, and The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. She is thrilled to recently join the a haunted botany team for the Eastern White Pine piece of the project, a performance for a forgotten forest.