About

{From a little town in the Rockies. Often At large. Now based between Paris, FR and Brussels, BE}

Marina Cherry is…of a breed that is hard to define. As many humans are, she is a multitude of layered bits and pieces. A contortionist-acro-dancer, educated at ESAC (Brussels 2016-2019) and ENC (Montreal 2014-2016), she is primarily focused on her solo work, recently premiering “AVoid”, while continuing to tour her other solo Only Bones v.1.6. She is as well part of Belgian companies Les Argonauts and Petri Dish. Her research-based approach to creation and performing puts her somewhere between dance, contemporary circus and physical theatre; with her body as the tool of manipulation and method for redefining traditional constructs and deconstructing techniques to find her own language. 

Marina does not base her work on any particular ideology, rather she prefers to find continually fresh views for inspiration. The artist is curious about how the cross‐over between disciplines fosters both innovation, and a verbally inexplicable mess. She is trying to defend this as a valid research rather than a diluted skillset. One of her main drives in creation is her passion for perspective and the unknown—what she cannot see, and what she can guide other people towards via their own lenses. She adores details and attention to understated presences. Marina questions norms and codes across different groups and cultures; trying to understand what divides beings on an individual, and societal level—tying together another central theme of her work: alienation and identity.