luna beller-tadiar

Luna Beller-Tadiar (she/they) is a Manila-born, US-raised, queer, mixed-Filipinx multi-media artist who works in choreography, video, text, and comics. Her work across artistic media investigates socio-historical forces at the level of the body, especially as they touch gender, colonialism, diaspora, and new media. In making choreographic work Luna draws on an eclectic mix of movement education that includes capoeira, Argentine tango, almost two decades of Aikido, new media research, study of gesture, and an ongoing investigation into embodied mimicry and malleability. She has trained at Yale University, Duke University, Bates Professional Training Program, Camping at the Centre National de la Danse, and New York Aikikai, among others. She has performed her own work in Durham, USA; NYC; Pau, France; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

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Luna's choreography-performance work has been supported by Mark Morris Dance Center’s SharedSpace program; selected for 92NY’s Future Dance Festival; and selected for American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers film festival. Her work with queer Argentine tango has received support from Yale University; McGill University; and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (with Phi Lee Lam); she has taught dance at American Dance Festival studios, Duke University, and The LGBTQ Center (NYC). As a working performer she has performed for Emily Coates at the Yale University Art Gallery; for Korakrit Arunandochai and boychild at the Performa Biennal 19; and for Sabaline Fournier at the Palais Beaumont in Pau, France. 
 

 

 

Yale comparative Literature BA ('18)

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Formerly a doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke University; currently a doctoral student at NYU Media Culture and Communication

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