About Duran

Duran is a multidisciplinary artist, movement director and designer working across performance, film, theatre, design and cultural practice.

For over 13 years, she has been a dedicated practitioner of Shway Style, an underground street dance form taught to her by its creator, street dance legend Adolfo ‘Shabba-Doo’ Quiñones. That experience profoundly shaped her artistic voice, and much of her work since has centred around preserving the form’s legacy, evolving its language and building a living culture around it in the UK.

In 2017, she founded Shway Style UK, now the largest Shway community in the world. The platform was built through teaching, mentoring, training and artistic development. Her relationship to the form continues to shape not only her movement practice, but also her wider artistic voice and approach to world-building.

Alongside her performance and cultural work, Duran is the founder and creative director of YUCKY: Planet of Movement and Design, an evolving creative universe exploring the relationship between movement and design. The platform brings together movement direction, visual storytelling and handcrafted sculptural objects, produced both for performance contexts and as collectible works.

Her work is driven by instinct, experimentation and the belief that movement philosophies can extend far beyond the body, shaping images, objects, environments and experiences that feel surreal, tactile and emotionally charged.