The Brooklyn Rail

nibia pastrana santiago is based in San Juan. nibia develops site-specific “choreographic events” to experiment with time, fiction, and notions of territory. She is co-director at Beta-Local and also serves as the Dance Program Coordinator at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, the first of its kind in Puerto Rico. Currently, nibia is co-editing an anthology on Puerto Rican experimental dance with dance scholar Susan Homar, to be published in 2021. Her work has been supported by Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades. nibia is a 2019 Whitney Biennial artist.