Labrador digital art: Pedro Valiente
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01 NEW YORK I ARTS & CULTURE 02 NEW YORK I LIFE IN THE CITY 03 SPAIN I ARTS & CULTURE 04 SPAIN I PERFORMING ARTS
WRITING I ARTICLES
As MA and PhD student, Pedro Valiente started to write for several media in Madrid and New York. Pedro worked for four years as staff writer for El Público theater magazine, and as US correspondent writer for El Urogallo literature magazine.
LANGUAGES: Spanish I English
COUNTRIES: Spain I United States
SUBJECTS: Film I Performing Arts I Visual Arts I Literature
MEDIA: Staff writer/Madrid: El Público I Correspondent writer/New York: El Urogallo I Freelance/New York: The Washington Square News I Freelance/Spain: newspapers El Periódico, La Verdad, La Tribuna, Diario16; magazines Ronda Iberia, Factor Cinco, Osmus
WRITING IN ENGLISH
Washington Square, NY: Creative Commons I © NYU logo
NEW YORK I ARTS & CULTURE
FILM I THEATER
Pedro Valiente received a grant from Castilla-La Mancha regional Government to research at Columbia University in New York towards his PhD dissertation on director/artist Robert Wilson's work. The following year, he was awarded the highest Fulbright grant of the year in Spain to study filmmaking in New York. During both residences, Pedro wrote a series of articles for The Washington Square News magazine at New York University, and other media mostly covering Spanish film and arts in the United States.
LINKS
The Washington Square News: nyunews.com
New York University: nyu.com
Columbia University: columbia.edu
WRITING IN SPANISH
El Público I RondaIberia I El Urogallo
02 NEW YORK I LIFE IN THE CITY
WRITTEN IN NEW YORK, PUBLISHED IN SPAIN
Pedro Valiente wrote a firsthand account of the attacks to the Twin Towers in New York. The series of five articles was published on September 11, 12, 13, 14, and one week latter.
LINKS
La Tribuna: latriunadeciudadreal.es
03 SPAIN I ARTS & CULTURE
CINEMA BOOKS I HEINER MULLER I RAMÓN GÓMEZ DE LA SERNA
While attending MA and PhD programs in Madrid, Pedro Valiente wrote a series of articles including a book series on cinema edited by filmmaker José Luis Garci and journalist Ana Rosa Quintana; also about the German contemporary dramaturg Heiner Müller, and Spanish avant-garde writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna.
LINKS
El Periódico: elperiodicodearagon.com/
Ramón Gómez de la Serna: britannica.com/biography/Ramon-Gomez-de-la-Serna
Heiner Müller: muse.jhu.edu/article/34448/summary
SPAIN I ARTS & CULTURE
FILM I THEATER I LITERATURE
As a PhD student, Pedro Valiente was an active writer on arts and culture. Pedro was assigned as correspondent in New York for El Urogallo magazine. He also published collaborations for other magazines (Osmus) and newspapers (Diario 16, La Verdad de Murcia).
LINKS
Magazines: El Urogallo: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Urogallo I Theater Writers: aat.es
Newspapers: La Verdad: laverdad.es I Diario 16: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diario_16
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04 SPAIN I AVANT-GARDE
ROBERT WILSON I LAURIE ANDERSON
MADRID
For the last issue of El Público (The Public) magazine published by the Ministry of Culture of Spain, Pedro Valiente was assigned to write about the cover's feature: Robert Wilson's premiere at the National Theater (CDN). For four years, Pedro also assigned to wrote about experimental theater, contemporary dance, new authors, and avant-garde artists such as Laurie Anderson, and La Fura dels Baus.
NEW YORK
Years later in New York, Pedro worked with Robert Wilson and interviewed Phillip Glass, and met Susan Sontag, and Salman Rushdie, among others; and worked at The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with Isabella Rossellini, Fiona Shaw, and Dominique Sanda. Pedro also attended an event at The Watermill Center hosted by actor Hugh Jackman and singer/actress Lady Gaga. During ten years residence in New York, Pedro approached figures close to the American avant-garde and the Theater of Images such as director Richard Foreman; scholar/director Richard Schechner who accepted his participation in a theater workshop at New York University; and director Anne Bogart who accepted to supervise his PhD dissertation at Columbia University. Pedro volunteered for the Wooster Group by Elizabeth LeCompte (Kate Valk, Willem DaFoe) at Selwyn Theater; and Trisha Brown Dance Company.
LINKS
Laurie Anderson: laurieanderson.com
Robert Wilson: robetwilson.com
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SPAIN I PERFORMING ARTS
EL PÚBLICO MAGAZINE, MINISTRY OF CULTURE OF SPAIN
Before becoming a filmmaker/artist, Pedro Valiente was arguably the youngest staff writer on performing arts in Spain. After graduating from the university in Madrid, Pedro took his first job ever for El Público (The Public) magazine of the Ministry of Culture of Spain. El Público was considered the main specialized media on performing arts in Spain and Latin America in the 80s and 90s. Pedro worked in El Público for four years where he was ranked n1 in published articles mostly on contemporary theater and dance.
LINKS
Performing Arts / Ministry of Culture of Spain: teatro.es/en I cdaem.mcu.es/en/recursos/
Center of Documentation for Performing Arts and Music (Centro de Documentación de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música, INAEM)
© 2022 Pedro Valiente
