Martita Abril (Pichu)

Martita Abril (Pichu) is from the border city of Tijuana, México. She has collaborated with dance artists and companies including AUNTS, Lux Boreal, Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro, Yoshiko Chuma, Milka Djordevich, Tess Dworman, Daria Fain and Robert Kocik, Allyson Green, Abigail Levine, Mina Nishimura, Cori Olinghouse, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Will Rawls, David Thompson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Cathy Weis, and Andros Zins-Browne. Martita was a performer in Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions, the Handles exhibition by Haegue Yang, and the Mirrors I & II piece by Joan Jonas at the Museum of Modern Art. She was part of the Fresh Tracks Residency, the Dance and Process (DAP) artist in residency program at The Kitchen in partnership with Arts and Letters, and the Movement Research (MR) Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Martita has been a recipient of international residencies in Ecuador, Mexico, Latvia, and most recently Budapest, and Prague which were supported by the GPS/Global Practice Sharing Program of Movement Research with funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding. She currently guides workshops in gardens for Spanish speaking families who recently arrived in NYC, through the iLAND (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance) program in collaboration with El Puente. She is currently the Director of MR at the Judson Church Monday night series, she continues to mentor Immigrant artists as part of the NYFA Coaching program and is a member of NYFA’s Artist Advisory Committee. Martita was a co-curator for Sundays On Broadway with Cathy Weis Projects in 2025 for their Spring and Fall season and currently she is co-curator in residency at La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival.

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