Victoria Marks

Victoria Marks creates dances for the stage, for film and in community settings. Marks’ recent work has considered the politics of citizenship, as well as the representation of both virtuosity and disability. These themes are part of her ongoing commitment to locating dance-making within the sphere of political meaning.

Marks is a Professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA where she has been teaching since 1995.

She is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and has received recent grants from the Irvine Foundation, the NEA and the Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Council. In 1997, Marks was honored with the Alpert Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography.

Over the course of her career, she has been the recipient of multiple grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the London Arts Board, among others.

She has received a Fulbright Fellowship in Choreography, and numerous awards for her dance films, including the Grand Prix in the Video Danse, first prize in Videodance Barcelona, the Golden Antennae Award from Bulgaria, the IMZ Award for best screen choreography and the Best of Show in the Dance Film Association’s Dance and the Camera Festival.

Biography provided by: Victoria Marks

Solar Duplex (2014) Choreographed by Victoria Marks
Performed by Alexx Shilling and Willy Souly

http://vimeo.com/99775840

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Official Website: http://www.victoriamarks.com/Victoria_Marks_Performance/Welcome.html

Mark’s Published Works: http://victoriamarks.com/Victoria_Marks_Performance/Writings.html

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