MERIAN SOTO
For more than 30 years, Merián Soto has been creating and presenting solo, group and collaborative pieces across the US and internationally. She is one of the founders, along with Patti Bradshaw and Pepón Osorio, of Pepatián. In that capacity, she developed, curated and produced numerous projects featuring new works by emerging Latino dance and performance artists from 1983-1999. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards for her choreography including a Bessie (New York Dance and Performance Award) for sustained achievement in 2000 and a ROCKY (Greater Philadelphia Dance and Physical Theater Award) for the One Year Wissahickon Park Project in 2008. Soto lives in Philadelphia where she is Associate Professor in thec Department of Dance at the Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University and a PennPAT roster artist.
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