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Kristin Marting

Kristin is a co-founder and Executive Director of HERE Arts Center, where she cultivates artists and curates all events for three performance spaces for an annual audience of 75,000. Under her leadership, HERE has received ten OBIE-awards, one Pulitzer Prize nomination, and two Drama Desk nominations. She also co-founded and served as co-artistic director of Tiny Mythic Theatre Company for nine years until it merged with HERE.

Over the last fifteen years, Kristin has constructed twenty works for the stage, including seven dance-theatre pieces, seven adaptations of novels and six classic plays. Recent projects include ERENDIRA, a hybrid performance work based on a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; DEAD TECH, a collaborative theatrical collage based on THE MASTER BUILDER by Henrik Ibsen and architectural texts, co-adaptation and direction of POSSESSED, from the novel by Dostoevsky; and co-creation and direction of WOMEN OF ORLEANS, an unorthodox examination of race and gender in the late 1800's.

For the last ten years, Kristin has been developing a unique hybrid directorial/choreographic form which features a "gestural vocabulary" used both as an emotional signifier and as a choreographic element. This vocabulary, though specific to each project, is in a state of constant development with an ever-growing set of permanent gestures being added to the repertoire.

Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, NY State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Aeroflex Foundation, Axe-Houghton Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Jerome Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation Multi Arts Program and Peg Santvoord Foundation; reviews have appeared in all major New York media.

Kristin graduated from New York University in 1988 with honors. She has been a guest artist and lecturer at NYU and Harvard University.