visual theater"My artistic journey began with key exposure to avant-garde artists Joan Brossa and Kazuo Ōhno within the performing arts scene in Madrid. This foundation led to a defining, long-term collaboration with Robert Wilson in New York. Following projects, including directing visual theater in Mexico City, have evolved into hybrid forms, exploring emerging narratives." — PV
“Visual theater is seen in this body of work as a multi-layered experience, where narratives extend beyond text. Through visual architectures, storytelling is redefined, intimate and expansive, to inspire.”
VISUAL THEATER
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Robert Wilson
The Days Before DDDIII by Robert Wilson. Lincoln Center, New York. Video design collaborator: Pedro Valiente
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Butoh
Flying Fish Over Mexico. Tecnológico de Monterrey, National Center for the Arts, Mexico. Director: Pedro Valiente
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Tilmun Teatro
Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès, Caresses by Sergi Belbel, Nothing to America by Julio Cortázar. Tilmun Teatro, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Director: Pedro Valiente
VISUAL POETRY
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You Are Mythical
You Are Mythical. European Arts Project, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Director: Pedro Valiente
In You Are Mythical, transmedia documentary film produced by Crossing Stages European project at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, VISUAL POEMS explore performing arts on screen: [01] Penelope 08:40 Performance for screen [02] Antigone 20:00 Performance for music video [03] Jason 29:07 Bunraku theater [04] Siren 41:50 Dance for screen [05] Oedipus 49:58 Performance for video installation [06] Narcissus 59:35 Performance for art installation [07] Ulysses 01:10:25 Performance for music video.
2025 I Spain │ Postdramatic Theater. The American Adventure RESAD Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid I ESADS Escuelas Superiores de Arte Dramático │ Robert Wilson. Artist Talk & Tribute 7th Theater Visual Arts Series CDN 01 - CDN 02 Centro Dramático Nacional I AAEPP 01 - AAEPP 02 Theater Visual Artists Association I AAIV Light Designers Association
ARTIST TALKS
2022-2025 I Online │ TRAINING • Creative Writing for Film and Theater Gina Stevenson • Creative Writing Shaun Levin.• Writing Dialogues for Theater Jimena Eme Vázquez • Creating Characters for Novels Cristina López Barrio I Education
BOOK SERIES Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts (Ñaque Ed.), and Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process (upcoming) │ PhD DISSERTATION Study of Robert Wilson’s Creative Process │ ARTICLES Writing on performing arts in Madrid and New York, following early career work at El Público, Ministry of Culture's magazine, with focus on contemporary theater I Writing I Research
Penelope Builds Ships
(2018, Spain, 3:11) visual poem from You Are Mythical documentary film, screened at Notodofilmfest
Crossroads To Be Seen
"Pedro Valiente’s creative journey spans performance, visual media, and cultural narratives. His work evolves through collaborations that merge theater with technology, crafting immersive, multi-layered projects where story and visuals breathe together. Particularly in theater-dance, this path connects past influences with emerging futures as it continues to look at the crossroads of languages.
NEW YORK I Working with Robert Wilson on The Days Before DDD III [video design collaborator], Valiente absorbed a radical approach to visual storytelling —where image, time, and space coexist in powerful, sculptural tableaux vivants. This experience shaped a vision of the stage as an open environment, a shifting architecture inviting new modes of audience experience.
MEXICO CITY I Valiente’s work evolved in Flying Fish Over Mexico [director], a multimedia performance blending Butoh, film, and poetry. Rooted in landscapes of myth and memory, the piece at the National Center for the Arts, brought together students and artists in a collective ritual —a living tapestry where stage forms dissolved into one.
MADRID I Earlier in Spain, Tilmun Teatro theater company [director] worked on contemporary authors: Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès (Madrid premiere), Caresses by Sergi Belbel (Madrid premiere), and Nothing to America by Julio Cortázar (world premiere). Tilmun Teatro channeled an early use of multimedia on stage in the frame of Madrid’s university theater." Site I EXTERNAL REVIEW