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A Puerto Rican artist with light skin smiles while standing in front of lush green foliage. She has short, curly dark-brown hair with wisps of gray strands. Her head is tilted slightly to the left, and her mouth is open wide with an expression of joy.

Photo by Juan Carlos Malavé.

Artists

Noemí Segarra Ramírez

Movement Artist

San Juan, Puerto Rico (Borikén)

“I am learning new languages and methodologies that allow me to further accept, access, love, contrast, and name my own as well as PISO’s practices, experimentations, and processes. I am learning to release, thread, and build relations in new ways through allowing myself new choices. I am holding space to receive and experience even more sensation in my own body, deepening and expanding.”
Noemí Segarra Ramírez is a healer, organizer, facilitator, and educator in experimental dance committed to somatic and social justice in Puerto Rico. Segarra holds a BFA from Hunter College and an MFA from Temple University. She has been an Adjunct Faculty at Temple University, Bryn Mawr College, Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR), and the Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico. Segarra is the initiator of PISO, whose vision it is to make movement research and somatic practices public and accessible. Segarra’s art invites reflection on local-global scales, social and cultural contexts, alternative economies, and subtle architectures.

Donor -This award was generously supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 07.10.2024

Dance
Two people laugh and smile on either side of a lavender table in front of microphones. The person on the left has medium-brown skin, close-trimmed hair and beard, and wears a red-and-white striped shirt. The person on the right has long dark hair pulled back into a low ponytail and wears thick black headphones, wire-rimmed glasses, and a gray sleeveless shirt.

Taping of ArchivoVIVO, a podcast that shares PISO’s praxis through the stories of past collaborators, 2021.

On a grassy green lawn, two people pose near one another while brandishing oblong seed pods. The person on the left stands with their left arm stretched out in front of them and their right hand raised above their head. They have their eyes closed and wear a teal short-length dress. The person on the right is closer to the camera; they kneel on the lawn with their arms bent around their head, almost like a ballerina. They wear a long brown skirt and white crop top, revealing a pale torso.

Marion Ramírez Ramírez and Segarra Ramírez improvisation researching Caribbeanizing somatics, 2022. By the roots of a flamboyán tree at the rotonda in Floral Park, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Photo by Wilfredo Concepción Salinas.