Mar Talavera-Tejeda is a Peruvian choreographer and filmmaker based in New York City. She develops a movement language rooted in sensation, repetition, and internal impulse, approaching the body as an archive of personal, ancestral, and cultural memory.

Her work draws from the nonverbal expressions of her maternal lineage, shaped by states of devotion, fervor, and the tension between guilt and the need for salvation. Through the activation of the chest, core, and pelvis, she constructs physical conditions that allow dancers to attune to their own impulses, generating movement from within. These conditions build states of pressure, urgency, and transformation, where emotional experience is produced physically.

She is a 2024 Ann & Weston Hicks Choreography Fellow at Jacob’s Pillow and a recipient of the 2025 Shuster Award and the Outstanding Choreographer Award from Hunter College. Her work has been presented at La MaMa, Gibney, LPAC, Arts On Site, and MMAC.

Her dance films have screened internationally, including at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Mirada Corta (Mexico), and Insólito (Peru). 

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