Martín Lanz
Martín Lanz is an Interdisciplinary artist and cultural manager with an emphasis on performing arts. He works collaboratively with artists from different disciplines and latitudes, uses tools and information from several territories, and experiments with them to generate pieces, collaborations, artist meetings, and international exchange projects.
Biography
Lanz studied dance creation at the National Fine Arts Institute of Mexico and Cultural Management at UAM-OEI-CeNART. He has a diploma in research and teaching from Cenidi-Danza. One of his greatest influences is Manuel de Landa's lecture “Science of Intensities,” which he attended at the C.N.A. Multimedia Center in Mexico and the architecture school at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Based in Ciudad de México, he completed his academic training which he later developed professionally in New York as an Artist in Residence of Movement Research 2009. He has collaborated with artists such as D.D.Dorvillier, Meredith Monk, Daria Fain, Galia Eibenschutz, Ursula Eagly and Kohji Setoh. He has offered his work in New York at The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Chocolate Factory, Judson Church and in Mexico at Cenart, CASLP, UNAM, Museo del Chopo, Gran Galería, CASA Oaxaca, Prisma, Performástica, CampIn. Lanz has also taken his work to countries such as Finland, Austria, Denmark, and Germany in Europe. Additionally, he has performed in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, South Korea and Japan.
Lanz has received support from the Goethe Institute, FONCA; S.R.E., Munich Culture Secretariat, Western Dance Center of Finland, Iberescena, and Prince Clauss Foundation, among others.
As a teacher Lanz works in the collaborative aspect of artistic creation and its process, seeks methodologies accessible to most of audiences, working with improvisation techniques to generate materials and content based on the sensation of the body and the experience of designing the space. Teacher of the Interdisciplinary Curricular program of the National Center for the Arts (Mexico), he has taught composition and dance technique classes at the IVEC, Veracruz; UDLAP Bachelor of Dance; Teak Master of Performing Arts in Helsinki, Finland; Seoul Institute of Arts, Seoul Dance Center (Interdisciplinary composition). He is a member of the International Interdisciplinary Artist Consortium.
Lanz is currently pursuing his MFA at Bennington.