Mara Poliak is a dancer, artist, writer, collaborator, and teacher living in Oakland, California on unceded Ohlone land. Their performance, practices, and pedagogy center the commons, human and non-human lineages, queer solidarities in decolonizing and liberation work, and the body as a complete site of knowing. Long-term collaborators include Layton Lachman, Margit Galanter, Frances Rosario, Chani Bockwinkel, Abby Crain, and the Cave Coast Collective. Mara is a founding member of SALTA, a collective that hosted a free monthly mobile performance series for four years, and now organizes a yearly residency with a group of interdisciplinary artists in rural Northern California.
