Luna Beller-Tadiar (she/they) is a queer mixed-US-Filipinx multi-media artist and performer who works in choreography, video, text, and comics. Her work excavates a body language made up of fragments: remnants of lands, communities, and machines. Drawing on movement training in capoeira, tango, contemporary dance, and almost two decades of aikido, she takes inspiration from queer collaborative fabulation; from postcolonial Filipino practices of mimicry and re-use; and from contemporary interfacing of the body and technology.
Luna’s choreography-performance work has been shown at Mark Morris Dance Center; the 92NY; Duke University; Yale University; in La Union (Philippines); in Buenos Aires (Argentina); and in 2024 earned her recognition as a Jadin Wong Artist of Exceptional Merit from the Asian American Art Alliance. In video-art form her work has been selected for the American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers film festival; exhibited in installation form at Duke; shown at CICA Museum; and featured in Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies. Luna regularly teaches queer tango in NYC at The Center for LGBT Life and is also a PhD student at NYU’s department of Media, Culture, and Communication.
ID: Close up of Luna Beller-Tadiar's face, half lit in orange and half in green. She has short curly black hair with shaved sides and light brown skin that looks orange in the light. They look at the camera. Photo courtesy of the artist.