Jan 2026 : Agarra by Bianca Hisse and Laura Cemin - Bærum Kulturhus

2026 : III ACTS: Breathing by Teresa Puig and Valentina Mariscal - Stavanger/Rogaland

2027 : Esquecer (you didn't teach me to forget you) by Kiyoshi Yamamoto and Valentina Mariscal - RAS 

In September 2025, I was invited to take part in the Performing Arts Relay artistic laboratory in Aarhus, a four-day research environment bringing together three artists from Norway, Denmark and Canada. Hosted under the theme Language // Landscape, the lab offered a space for experimentation, exchange and practice-based inquiry, exploring how geography, culture and linguistic perspectives shape artistic processes.

Aarhus, Denmark. September 2025

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Arts Relay artists: Col Cseke, Stine Marsinkowski, Valentina Mariscal

 

Arts Relay partners: Brian Quirt / Gloria Mok, Nightswimming (CAN), Barbara Simonsen, Seachange Lab (DK), Magda Nordstrøm, Davvi – Centre for Performing Arts (NOR)

This investigation explores experiences of exotization through large-scale interactions with silk textiles. Moving between embodiment and disembodiment, the work questions how textile materials simultaneously archive and erase bodily memory, creating dialogues between permanent structures and impermanent presence. As wind and body animate silk across unexpected settings, new vocabularies for remembering emerge, challenging viewers to reconsider our relationships with space, visibility, and collective memory.

 

KunstRomArbeid, Stavanger, May 2025

 

Performer: Valentina Martinez

Credits: Artistic collaboration with textile artist Kiyoshi Yamamoto and dancer artist Keira Marie Forde.

Photo: Eduardo Scaramuzza
 

Esquecer from Portuguese "to forget" -- is an interdisciplinary contemporary dance piece that examines the body's role as a carrier of migration histories, cultural memories, and power structures. The work explores the body's dialogue with natural elements and how experiences leave their mark even when we try to detach ourselves. Through a decolonial approach, the performance challenges the white gaze and the exoticization of "the other."

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The project had a first residency period in HAUT in Copenhagen in May 2025

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Concept : Valentina Martinez Mariscal and Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Textiles: Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Contributing dancers: Valentina Martínez and Keira Forde

Collaboration: HAUT x KRA x RAS​
 

Byrom is a dance film project initiated by artist Bernhard Østebø. The project observes specific urban spaces in the city of Haugesund and how they affect the users of these spaces, and the other way around. The second demo for the film was done on February 2025

 

Choreography : Valentina Martínez

Dancers: Valentina Martínez and Alexander Montgomery-Andersen 

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February 2024- July 2025
 

Concept and direction: Bernhard Østebø
Music: Andreas Petersson
Photography: Aleksandar Zecevic

Holding Tones is a performance project by Bianca Hisse and Laura Cemin. The performance explores how dance practices are carried, reshaped, and reinvented through migration and diasporic communities. Delving into the fluid nature of heritage, memory and cultural traditions, the piece invites us to ask what do we hold onto; and what do we chose to leave behind.

 

The project had a residency period at Zodiak in Helsinki in april 2025 and will have premiere in Bærum Kulturhus in 2026.

 

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Concept and direction: Bianca Hisse and Laura Cemin
Dancers and co-creators: Valentina Martinez Mariscal, Rakesh Sukesh
Music: Larie
Photos by: Ronja Darth

you didn't teach me how to forget you is a pilot project in performing arts. You didn't teach me... is a continuation of my earlier work Synthesis, where I explored the body's assimilation of cultural and physical elements. In you didn't teach me how to forget you, myself and textile artist Kiyoshi Yamamoto, together with photographer Maya Økland will extend this exploration by focusing on the body's interaction with light and wind, and how these natural elements shape our movement and sense of self. 

 

Photo : Maya Økland

Dancers:  Tova Karlsson, Sally Zetterström, Veronika Poniznik

Textile : Kiyoshi Yamamoto

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November 2024 ​

                  

MAS, QUE NADA (Let's run away) by Kiyoshi Yamamoto is inspired by the Edvard Munch paintings Madonna and Dance of Life. The performance has been conceived to coincide with Midsummer’s Eve and the start of Oslo Pride and took place at MUNCH museuem. Textiles and colours are central elements in Kiyoshi Yamamoto's artistic practice, and he explores sensory experiences, identity and culture through performance. The artist asks: "What do we define as 'alien' and how can we together counteract the experience of alienation?"

 

Choreography : Luam Lima, Bruno Figueiredo, Ieva Toleikyte-Celestino 

Dancers:  Bruno Aguiar Da Gama, Wendel Haagensen Silva Ribeiro, Jacqueline Brandao, Agatha Rosa, Valentina Martínez, Mariscal, Kyuja Bae

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July 2024 ​

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Byrom is a dance film project initiated by artist Bernhard Østebø. The project observes specific urban spaces in the city of Haugesund and how they affect the users of these spaces, and the other way around. The first demo for the film was done on February 2024

 

Choreography : Valentina Martínez

Dancers: Valentina Martínez and Sarjo Sankareh 

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February - July 2024 
 

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Synthesis is a choreographic exploration that addresses the complexities of cultural assimilation, focusing on the different paths individuals navigate when integrating into unfamiliar cultural environments. Based on contemporary Latin jazz, the duet aims to reveal how an individual's cultural identity can be simplified and transformed.

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Synthesis will be shown under Oslo Jazzdansfestival in June 2024

Oslo (NO) 

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Dancer Valentina Martinez and artist Marie Cole will be performing I move as I write – I write as I move, a durational puzzle-performance during Tegnetriennalen. The piece is about regeneration, and the pleasure-pain dichotomy.

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The piece is curated by Tenthaus art collective and will be shown during Tegnetriennalen at Tenthaus, Nasjonalmuseet, and at Tegneforbundet, the drawing association in Norway

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October - December 2023 
Oslo (NO) 

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Performance as a result of a co-creating residence workshop led by artist duo VestandPage. The one hour live performance was presented just once and was based on the unique contribution that each of the invited collaborators brought into the work. The theme of the performance revolved around the subject of home.

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October  2023 
Kunstbanken, Hamar (NO) 

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«Welcoming» is a choreographic dance piece created by dancers Valentina Martinez and Laura Perrot, in collaboration with second-year students from Kirkeparken vgs. danselinja. This performance celebrates the journey of womanhood, offering insight through movement, into the trajectory of discovery and personal development.

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This dance performance is a return to nature, an acknowledgment of ancient rhythms, and a shared experience of growth. «Welcoming» fosters an unspoken sisterhood that resonates with the universal experience of becoming.

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September 2023 
Galleri F 15, Moss (NO) 

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Basic Stitch was a dance performance based on the historical clothing industry before and after the Second World War, run by Jewish families.

The project is a commission from Jødisk Kulturfestival, and takes its point of departure from a Jewish clothing factory that existed in Trondheim until the 70s/80s, in the old Jewish district of 'Nerbyen'.

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The performance premiered during the Jewish Culture Festival on 2 September 2023 at Bogard Cosmo in Trondheim.

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Aug / Sep 2023 
Bogard Cosmo, Trondheim (NO) 

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ALDA is an installation and an ongoing performance that exists on the boundaries between dance and visual arts. Inspired by women’s collective physical labour, the work uses repetitive motions and singing to make space for intimate female assembly, care and coalescence through movement, sound and material.

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The project is initiated by choreographer Katrín Gunnarsdóttir in collaboration with designer Eva Signý Berger and composer Baldvin Þór Magnússon. 

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Nov 2022 / March 18 - 25 2023 
Multiplie Dance Festival, Trondheim (NO) 

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Workshop series exploring ways to engage with the exhibited artworks in the ABUNDANCE exhibition though movement and play. 

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Feb 2023 
Galleri F 15, Moss (NO) 

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Solo revisiting different parts of "Welcoming acts", a project in development since 2020

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Presented as part as Tenthaus art collective's group exhibition in "Kunst I Store Gilhus Gård" - Lier Sept 2022.

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Crossings is a partly improvised, partly choreographed duet exploring the meeting between dance genres of afro-latin roots. The work traces one of jazz’s numerous historical branches, linking this type of dance to percussion instruments, to beats, and to a strong connection to the earth beneath us. In this retake of Crossings, we explore our individual expressions, wishes and frustrations at a crosspoint between our need to belong and to be socially connected.

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Åpen scene - Dansekunst i Østfold - Blå Grotte - Sep 2022

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Choreography for sequence in short film "Kunsten er død", directed by Ivar Åase and produced by Nordisk Film.

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August 2022

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Dance performance as part of the National Museum's opening exhibition, "Weather Forecast" is an interpretation of predictions about the future of the museum made by various professionals, both within and outside the art world. The work attempts to discuss the museum's and exhibition ritual's function, societal task and possible future, whether it is utopian or dystopian.

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The museum's opening exhibition "Jeg kaller det kunst" features the work of147 artists and artist groups currently working in Norway.

 

June/July 2022 - Nasjonalmuseet

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Crossings is a partly improvised, partly choreographed duet exploring the meeting between dance genres of afro-latin roots. The work traces one of jazz’s numerous historical branches, linking this type of dance to percussion instruments, to beats, and to a strong connection to the earth beneath us.

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Oslo Jazzdansfestival - Scenehuset June 2022

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In the public spaces at Rosendal Teater, dancers will be performing various glimpses from the development of DansiT in the last 20 years. From the beginning in 2001 when a group of dance artists in Trondheim established DansiT as a member organisation, until today, where DansiT has become a choreographic senter, on state budget, with a studio space at Svartlamon and offices at Rosendal Teater.

The anniversary exhibition is curated by Mishi Foltyn in collaboration with DansiT. Performers from the Danselaboratoriet, Danseteateret and local dance artists will participate in the exhibition at various times during the festival.

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Multiplié Dansefestival 2022 - Rosendal Teater March 25th, 2022

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Welcoming acts are gestures of bringing someone/something into our space. They are rituals meant to remove the distance between a host and a guest. We create an ambiance, an opportunity to connect, to meet in the same time and space.  Each act carries a thought and an intention. A potential to fulfill. How can simple gestures become so meaningful? How do we define ourselves through welcoming acts?

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SØaR dansefestival - March 18th 19.30

Kilden Teater - Kristiansand

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IMPOSSIBLE ACTIONS was activated in Rosendal Teater by 8 local professional dancers in Trondheim after a week-long movement research practice at DansiT, based on the structure and concepts of the physical solo NUTRICULA (Shanghai, 2015).

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Konsept/Concept: Yasen Vasilev

Utøvere/Performers: Nora Synnøve Eek, Ann Kathrin Granhus, Amalia Wiatr Lewis, Gunhild Løhre, Valentina Martínez Mariscal, Celline Meillaud, Vilde Opeide, Marie Rechsteiner

Presenteres av/Presented by: DansiT i samarbeid med Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder.

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Performances February 11. - 12. 2022

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Workshop on concept of home with members of Grønland Seniorsenter. These workshops are an initiative of Tenthaus Oslo, a multidisciplinay art collective working with socially engaged art.

 

The work will take inspiration in memory and the migrant body, as a majority of the members of the center come from a migrant background. The body is a memory collector, and there is no doubt that our history informs the way we move. Our old way of moving will join new ways, in figuring out what home is. 

 

Workshops in November 2021

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Research workshop on structure and vocabulary for ALDA performance, a project initiated by the Icelandic choreographer Katrín Gunnarsdóttir.

 

The work is inspired by the story of women's collective physical work, and especially its relationship to repetitive movements and song, to generate a situation of intimate female gathering, convergence and coincidence.

 

It will be presented at the Multiplié dance festival in April 2023. 

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Substitute dance teacher for cultural school in Trondheim

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Jazz, modern, creative dance, choreography workshops

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March 2021 - Jan 2022

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Introductory salsa course for partnerwork 

Improvers salsa course for intermediate puertorican salsa

Body movement

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March - May 2021

Sept - Dec 2021

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Basic styling, technique and figures 

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Weekly class 

Workshops for children and youth

June, July, August 2021

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Choreography and improvisational workshops in different styles

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Trondheim and Orkland Kommune

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Performance

June 2021

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Choreography and concept by Amalia Wiatr Lewis

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Dansens dager - Senter for Dansepraksis

April 2021

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Another dance is an action that takes place during the Dance Days at schools around the country in celebration of the international day of dance

Residency – Tenthaus

March 2021

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Dialogues with space - workshops on movement, dance and awareness

Production of a creative dance piece with a participatory and inclusive aspect