About Yanira

Yanira Castro is a Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist living in Brooklyn. In 2009, she formed the collaborative group, a canary torsi, an anagram of her name. Her performances, videos and installations have been presented and commissioned by various spaces in New York including The Chocolate Factory Theater, Abrons Arts Center, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Danspace Project, LMCC’s River To River Festival, ISSUE Project Room, and the New Museum—and has toured nationally (Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, The Yard, Redfern Art Center, SPACE Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, EMPAC, Vermont Performance Lab) and internationally. She is a 2019 New York Live Arts’ Live Feed Artist, a 2018 Yaddo Fellow and Marble House Project AIR, 2017 Gibney DiP Artist, 2016 NY Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellow, and a participant of LMCC’s Extended Life program (2015-17). She has been in residency at BRIClab, Dancehouse IN_Residence (Melbourne), Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. Her work has been recognized with awards including The MAP Fund, NEFA’s National Dance Project, Jerome Foundation, New Music USA, and NYSCA Theater Commission. She received a 2009 NY Dance & Performance Award (aka Bessie) for Dark Horse/Black Forest presented by Performance Space 122 in the lobby restroom of The Gershwin Hotel. With choreographer Melinda Ring, she collaborated in December 2018 on an iteration of Simone Forti’s See Saw for the Modern Museum of Art’s Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done. In June 2019, she collaborated with artist Kathy Couch on a public art piece, now.here.this, for the Prague Quadrennial.