Press



Performing and Creating as Equals Across the Age Gap By Siobhan Burke for The New York Times, June 23, 2022.

Intentionally Rascuache by Miryam Coppersmith for Thinking Dance Philadelphia; October 2, 2021.

Mariana Valencia in “Air” by Eva Yaa Asantewaa January 18, 2020.

What if a Dance Piece Were Actually Funny? Or Super Sad? by Siobhan Burke for the New York Times; January 8, 2020.

Mariana Valencia’s ALBUM and Bouquet by Gillian Jakab, for the brooklyn rail; july 2019.

Mariana Valencia offers “Bouquet” at The Chocolate Factory by Eva Yaa Asantewaa April 20, 2019.

You’ll Never Dance Alone (a Solo) by Siobhan Burke for the New York Times April 19, 2019.

Chronicling Her Own History With Movement by Siobhan Burke for the New York Times April 13, 2019.

Groundings at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago January 7, 2019.

 

Archiving and Authoring in the Margins, by Emmaly Wiederholt, for Stance on Dance November 12, 2018.

Bouquets within Reach  by Mike Stinavage, for the Brooklyn Rail; May 1, 2018.

 

ALBUM at American Realness by Sara Lyons, for Contemporary Performance; Jan 19, 2018.

 

DRAFF Reviews: ALBUM by Zoe Ni Riordain; January 11, 2018

Are You Here for the Performance Piece? by Jen George, for the Brooklyn Rail; February 7, 2018.

 

Making (and Seeing) Dance In a Politicized World by Siobhan Burke for The New York Times; Nov 17, 2017.

 

Together in the Fierce Tender by Maura Donohue for CUTLTUREBOT; Nov 4, 2017.

 

Shared Evening Jasmine Hearn and Mariana Valencia by Eva Yaa Asantewaa for InfiniteBody; Oct 17, 2017

 

Just Visiting by Tara Sheena for Culturebot; May 24, 2017

 

ALBUM Siobhan Burke for the New York Times, March 30, 2017

 

Song As Catharsis by Alex Fialho, for the Danspace Project Journal; November 8, 2016.

 

About AIDS Dance: Remembrance as a Performative Practice by Alex Fialho for the Danspace Project Journal; October 25, 2016.

 

Jaime Shearn Coan in conversation with Mariana Valencia for Movement Research Critical Correspondence; September, 2016.

 

Togethering by Tara Aisha Willis, in Hand Written Note(s), Movement Research Spring Fest, May 2016

 

Many Modes: The Practice and Performance of Mariana Valencia, Interview by Tara Sheena, CULTUREBOT, May 2016

 

What Dance Can Be, Review by Cassie Peterson for The Brooklyn Rail; October, 2015