E D U C A T I O N

M F A – D A N C E  T H E A T R E  |  University of California, San Diego, 2020

Emphases in directing productions, interdisciplinary collaboration, and teaching contemporary dance practices with craniosacral integration  

B F A – D A N C E , Distinction in the Major  |  University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006

Conservatory style training in modern / post-modern / contemporary dance, contact / improvisation, digital / environmental / concert choreography, pedagogy, and design

P R O F E S S I O N A L  C E R T I F I C A T I O N

600 Hour Pilates Apparatus & Mat  |  The Lab: Fitness Reinvented, Brooklyn, NY, 2012

Continuing Pilates Education  |  Kane School of Pilates, New York, NY, 2015

 P R O F E S S I O N A L  T R A I N I N G

Cleaning the House Workshop  |  Marina Abromović Institute, Karyes, Greece, 2024 

Start with Dignity: A Leadership Development Course  |  Alliance San Diego, CA, 2023

On-Location Film Production & Screenwriting  |  San Diego City College, CA 2023

José Limón Teacher Training  |  José Limón Institute, New York, NY, 2022

SomatoEmotional Release 2  |  Upledger Institute, Denver, CO, 2022

Digital Media and Graphic Design  |  San Diego Community College, 2020–2021

Equity Minded Leadership  |  Katy Brecht, Center for Student Involvement, UC San Diego, 2020

Awareness Through Movement (Feldenkrais)  |  Liam Clancy, Eric Geiger, UC San Diego, ‘17 – ’20

SomatoEmotional Release 1  |  Upledger Institute, Esalen-Big Sur, CA, 2017

Tai Chi with Caren Bayer  |  New York, NY, 2016–2017

Alexander Technique with Ian Jorgensen  |  New York, NY, 2014–2017

Gyrotonic Expansion System  |  Body Evolutions, New York, NY, 2014–2017

Jivamukti Yoga  |  Jivamukti Yoga School, New York, NY, 2010–2017

CranioSacral Therapy 2  |  Upledger Institute, Portland, Maine, 2016

CranioSacral Therapy 1  |  Upledger Institute, New York, NY 2015

U N I V E R S I T Y  &  C O L L E G E  T E A C H I N G  

DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE  |  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO  |  QUARTERS  

COMMITTEE MEMBER

Unit 18 Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Fund 2024-25 AY

MENTOR 

PACE Fellowship Program, Undocumented Student Services, 2023-24 AY

LECTURER

Dance on Film (Theory), Fall 2025

Contact Improvisation, Winter, Summer, Fall 2025

Contact Improvisation, Beginning Contemporary Dance, Winter, Spring, Fall 2024

Studies in Performance: Tumbling Down the… Virtual Production Director, Fall 2023

Contact Improvisation, Fall 2023

Beginning Contemporary Dance, Winter, Spring 2023

Advanced & Intermediate Contemporary Dance, Winter 2023 

Beginning Contemporary Dance, Fall 2022

Studies in Performance: WinterWORKS Production Co-Director, Winter 2022

Studies in Performance: New Directions Virtual Production Director, Spring 2021

TEACHING ASSISTANT  | Graduate Student Lecturer, 100% Instruction Duties

Beginning Contemporary Dance, Winter 2018–Winter 2020 (8 quarters)

Studies in Performance: The Underground Production Director, MFA Thesis, Winter 2020

Studies in Performance: WinterWORKS Production Co-Director, Winter 2019

Studies in Performance: Heel, Skull Production Director, MFA Research, Spring 2018

GUEST LECTURER

“Pilates for Dancers,” T. Sommartano’s Advanced Contemporary Dance, Winter 2019

“Somatic Movement Practice,” L. Clancy’s Dance Making Processes, Winter 2019

“A Somatic Approach to Ballet,” A. Smith’s Intermediate Ballet, Fall 2018

“Environmental Choreography,” P. Rincon’s Site Specific Choreography, Spring 2018

“Dance for the Camera,” T. Wilson’s Introduction to Dance History, Fall 2017

“Improvising with CranioSacral Integration,” E. Geiger’s Contact Improvisation, Fall 2017

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND COMMUNICATION  |  SAN DIEGO CITY COLLEGE 

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

Movement for Wellness, Fall 2025

Pilates Anatomy, Upward Bound / TRIO  Federal Program, Summer 2024

Movement for Wellness at San Diego High School, Fall 2023

Ballet Fundamentals, Spring 2023

Pilates Mat, Fall 2022

Movement for Wellness, Upward Bound / TRIO Federal Program, Summer 2022

Dance Improvisation, Spring 2022

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Duran, Marcos. “One Work: Kevin Vincent”, HereInJournal.com, November 10, 2021.

Duran, Marcos (2020). The Underground. (Master’s thesis, UC San Diego). ProQuest 

Dissertations and Theses database.

P A P E R S  (unpublished)

“A Social Change Model of Leadership,” UC San Diego, 2019

“Effects of CranioSacral Therapy on the Dance Making Body,” Brooklyn, NY, 2016

P R E S S   F O R   D I R E C T I O N   &   C H O R E O G R A P H Y

Deaderick, Lisa. “Dancer’s work centers human rights.” San Diego Union Tribune, May 4, 2024. 

Hewitt, Lonnie Berestein. “Dance Time at the Mingei Museum.” Blogspot.com, Nov 8, 2021.

Los Angeles Film Festival Feedback, “Experimental Film Festival: Minced.” Wild Sound, Aug, 2021. 

Evans, Julia Dixon. “A Year of Distance Commemorated by SD Dancers.” KPBS.org, Mar 10, 2021.

“Meet Marcos Duran, Performance Artist and Dancer.” SDVoyager.com, August 24, 2020.

Newman, Jennifer. “Split Bill.” Blogspot.com, September 27, 2015.

Palenti, Cecily. “Underexposed.” Critical Dance, October 7, 2014.

Mills, Ted. “New Alliances.” Santa Barbara News Press, Jan 2007.

Schwyzer, Elizabeth. “The Importance of Play.” Santa Barbara Independent, May 17, 2007.

Tomasko, Felicia M. “Celebrating Experimentation.” Santa Barbara Independent, Feb 2, 2006.