Marianela Boán is Cuba's best-known avant-garde choreographer. In 1988, she founded DanzAbierta as a vehicle for her choreographic work. Since then, the company has traveled the world performing her "contaminated dance" style. Her work has been presented at many venues and festivals including Grec, Madrid en Danza Cadiz and Fall (Spain), The Place Theater (London), Festival of Nations (Switzerland), Chaillot Theater (Paris), Le Hague Festival (Holland), Cirque Royal de la Monnaie (Belgium), L'Arena de Verona and Goldoni Theater (Venice), Global Dance and Summer Theater (Germany), Edinburgh Fringe and Glasgow festivals (Scotland), and Odin Theater (Denmark) as well as in Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, India, Nigeria and Japan. Since 2000, she has been developing work in the U.S. She lives in Philadelphia where she completed her MFA at Temple University and is now on the faculty as an adjunct professor. In 2005, she founded her new company, BoanDanz Action. Also in 2005, she received a CAF grant to produce False Testimony at Conwell Theater (PA). False Testimony has been performed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre (NY, 2006) and at the Painted Bride Art Center (PA) and Bates Dance Festival (2007).