visual theater“In New York, I spent three years collaborating with director/artist Robert Wilson, including a PhD dissertation that evolved into a book series exploring his creative process. In Mexico City, I played a role in introducing Japanese butoh dance to the National Center for the Arts. In Madrid, I collaborated with a National Theater and a theater-dance company, while also directing university theater.” — PV
“Visual theater is shaped by the power of movement, the poetic fusion of word and image, and a strong sense of light, time, and space. I’m drawn to performance as a multi-sensory experience, where the body speaks through silence and beauty inhabits in every element on stage. In the layering of visual architectures, storytelling is redefined —both intimate and expansive, open to inspire.”
VISUAL THEATER
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Robert Wilson
THE DAYS BEFORE: death destruction and detroit III by Robert Wilson. Lincoln Center, New York. Video design collaborator: Pedro Valiente
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Butoh
Flying Fish Over Mexico, Tecnológico de Monterrey, CNA, Mexico. Director: Pedro Valiente
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Tilmun Teatro
Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Caresses by Sergi Belbel, Nothing to America by Julio Cortázar, Tilmun Teatro.. UCM. Director: Pedro Valiente
VISUAL POETRY
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You Are Mythical
Film by Crossing Stages UC3M European project. Director: Pedro Valiente
In You Are Mythical, documentary film produced through an European Project at UC3M, VISUAL POEMS explore performing arts on screen: [01] Penelope 08:40: performance for screen [02] Antigone 20:00: performance for music video [03] Jason 29:07: Bunraku theater [04] Siren 41:50: dance for screen [05] Oedipus 49:58: performance for video installation [06] Narcissus 59:35: performance for art installation [07] Ulysses 01:10:25: performance for music video
Penelope Builds Ships
(2018, Spain, 3:11) visual poem from You Are Mythical documentary film, screened on Notodofilmfest
Crossroads To Be Seen
“Emerging from a cross-disciplinary practice, Pedro Valiente’s creative journey spans performance, visual media, and cultural narratives. Moving beyond the limits of a single medium, the work evolves through collaborations that merge theater with technology, crafting immersive, multi-layered experiences where body, image, and story breathe together.
In New York, as a video design collaborator for Robert Wilson on The Days Before: Death, Destruction and Detroit III, Valiente absorbed a radical approach to visual storytelling —where image, time, and space coexist in powerful, sculptural tableaux vivants. This collaboration deepened a vision of the stage as an open environment, a shifting architecture inviting new modes of audience encounter.
In Mexico City, this vision evolved in Flying Fish Over Mexico, a multimedia performance deeply inspired by Butoh. Rooted in landscapes of myth and memory, the piece at the National Center for the Arts, brought together dancers, students, and artists in a collective, interdisciplinary ritual —a breathing tapestry where earth, body, and image dissolved into one.
Earlier in Madrid, Tilmun Teatro worked on multimedia performance in the frame of university theater. Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Caresses by Sergi Belbel, Nothing to America by Julio Cortázar channeled an early use of video on stage, visual theater, and live music. a new stage language was in the making bringing technology into a living, contemporary fabric.
Today, this creative path connects past influences with emerging futures. Experimenting with immersive media, it continues to explore the intersections of identity, culture, and narrative —inviting audiences into transformative spaces where art is not only seen, but profoundly lived.” Flying Fish Work I EXTERNAL REVIEW