Alejandra Martorell is a Puerto Rican dancer, inquirer and educator whose work is rooted in improvisational practices. Her research project, MAPA (“mapping”), looks at the development of experimental dance work in Puerto Rico and the web of practices, relationships, conditions and people that have constituted her artistic ecosystem. MAPA has been routing from language to movement manifestations and back into language through residencies supported by the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative and through her current work in the Performance as Public Practice doctoral program at The University of Texas at Austin. Martorell is a certified Alexander Technique teacher and served as dance faculty and academic leader of dance at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. She also taught at the Music Conservatory, the Visual Arts and Design School and the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. Her dance works have been presented in Puerto Rico and New York, where she collaborated on the work of choreographers Sally Silvers, Eduardo Alegría, Daria Faïn and Jennifer Monson, among others. Martorell holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico and a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts Education from San Francisco State University. Along with Guy Yarden, she helped launch Critical Correspondence at Movement Research, an online publication to develop a discursive practice around dance.