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Merián Soto
Choreographer, video, and improvisation artist, Merián Soto, has been presenting works across the U.S. and internationally since the mid-1970s. She is the creator of somatic aesthetic movement practices and creative methodologies – Branch Dancing and Modal Practice. Since 2005, her Branch Dance Series has included dozens of performances on stage, in galleries, in nature, as well as video installations, and year-long seasonal projects. Soto is a professor in the Esther Boyer College of Music & Dance at Temple University, and is Curator of the Reflection/Response Choreographic Commission. She is the recipient of multiple grants and awards including a New York Dance and Performance Award BESSIE in 2000, a Pew Artist Fellowship in 2015, a Leeway Transformation Award in 2016, and a Rauschenberg Foundation Residency in 2017. Her writings on dance have been published in Heresies Magazine, Movement Research Journal and Contact Quarterly.