LAS Art Foundation

Black and white photo of a person with long hair, crouching with arms extended towards the camera. The word esperanza is tattooed on their arm. The lighting creates dramatic shadows, highlighting the expressive pose.

Kianí del Valle is a Berlin based dancer, choreographer, director and performance curator originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico with professional experience in New York, Montreal, London, Los Angeles and Copenhagen. Driven by anthropological, biological and sociological concepts, Kianí’s work merges the lines of contemporary dance and performance art within film, photography, architecture, pop culture, technology and sound. Her embodied practice is guided by the interdependence of the act of physical exhaustion, intuitive groove, movement meditation, ritualistic practices, migrational journeys and paranormal experiences. Kianí has been touring her solo works for the past decade and is the founder and artistic director of the KDV Performance Group.