Marcos Duran, a California Arts Council sponsored dance theater artist, was born and raised in San Jose, California. He holds an MFA in Dance Theatre from UC San Diego, and a BFA in Dance from UC Santa Barbara.
After directing the Brooklyn based Marcos Duran Performance Group from 2009–2017, Marcos returned to San Diego, where he has been producing Moving Works performance media and live shows that examine the intersectional spectrum of “movement beings.” Moving Works brings performing and production artists into collaboration with public engagement, as they make and stage live, explorational, interactive, and screendance works that are cognitively moving and reflective of human circumstances.
Marcos has been exploring the reality of participation amidst the ongoing inheritance of our grotesque, global political landscape. Duran’s screen dance, Best To Move, is a diaristic self-portrait that highlights the enduring maintenance of Yaqui Native American and Hispanic mental health in today’s age of geo-political, technological, and race warfare. Best To Move will be presented at the Dance Studies Association Conference of Speculative Choreographies: Bodies, Economies, and Movement in a World in Flux, at California State University, Long Beach on October 23-25, 2026.
