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Dinorah is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker working with expanded cinema, public intervention, installation, and media design for stage. Often incorporating nature and the outdoors into her work, she probes such themes as genetic memory, social constructs, ecology, the body, gender, and sexuality. Combining handcrafted 16mm film with video, installation, and live performance, her pieces are exhibited internationally in film festivals, museums, galleries, TV, public venues, and on stage, as well as in public spaces as interventions.

Working in collaboration with a variety of performing artists in various disciplines, Dinorah has worked with integrated dance company Karen Peterson and Dancers; Pulitzer-winning playwright and theater director Nilo Cruz; choreographer and dancer Shaneeka Harrell; Niurca Marquez and Nu Flamenco; Tiffany Madero and Hanan Arts; Teatro Buendía theater company (Havana, Cuba); El Ingenio theater company; Antiheroes Project directed by José Manuel Domínguez; choreographer and dancer Afua Hall (RED, 2013); dance/theater artist Octavio Campos; movement theater artist Lucia Aratanha; Las Negras Theater Collective featuring Jennylin Duany and Elizabeth Doud; theater director Ricky Martínez, and several others.

Dinorah was awarded a Knight New Work Award underwritten by the Knight Foundation and Funding Arts Network, through Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator in 2009 for her piece Elusive Landscape, which included film projections into foliage and trees at five outdoor green spaces in Miami. She has won various grants, fellowships, and residencies in support of her work from entities such as National Performance Network, Theater Communications Group, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Artists’ Access, Present Project Hawai’i, Virginia Center for the Contemporary Arts, Fundación Valparaíso (Spain), Arts and Bangladesh (Bangladesh), and many others.

This film is a collaboration with dancer and choreographer Tiffany Madera, who is also the work's co-producer.

Since 2002, Miami based artist Tiffany Madera has become a figurehead in the dance world by re-coding traditional Egyptian raks sharki dance as a vehicle for feminist empowerment and social justice. As a performer, professor, activist, curator, filmmaker, and non-profit leader, Ms. Madera combines a highly aesthetic approach and academic scholarship to tackle the questions of our day.

She offers a theory based, community inclusive and global south perspective to local placemaking in the production of films, workshops and cultural exchanges in Miami, NYC, North Africa and the Caribbean. Her expanded approach to the arts is nourished by her Afro-Chinese Cuban ancestry.

She holds a Master’s Degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Florida International University and a Master’s Degree in Performance Studies from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, both with a focus on intercultural dance and film.